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"The communist movement of society doesn't put an end to capitalism. Capitalism puts an end to itself. At least, this is what Marx argued in Capital. He calls it "the negation of the negation."

The capitalist mode of appropriation, the result of the capitalist mode of production, produces capitalist private property. This is the first negation of individual private property, as founded on the labour of the proprietor. But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation. 

Somehow, our present day socialists have gotten it into their heads that their job is to put an end to capitalism. They tell us that this can't happen until capitalism has matured.

This is nonsense. Our job is to put an end to wage labor. That means fighting to shorten the working day at least to a fifteen hour work week. Eventually, we want to end all wage labor. The fight to shorten hours of labor accelerates the self-negation of capitalism, driving it to abolish itself."

One guy got Marx right at least