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		The point of this paper is to explore the significance of theorizing classless societies and the transition from classless to class forms of society for the development of Marxist theory.
		By focusing on class society it is possible to come to the conclusion that the form of exploitation is the key to understanding the form of the society.
		The entire economy of a classless society, the public as well as the family sectors, is organized for the greater good of its member households.
	eserver.org /govt/classless-society.txt (9298 words)

	Socialism from Below - Chapter 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They accept neither the Social Democratic idea of the gradual evolution of a socialist society through the use of parliament and other institutions of capitalist democracy, nor the Leninist idea of the seizure of State power by a party representing one class which will, in theory, usher in the classless society by governmental means.
		Thus, the social revolution to the free, classless society can be attained neither by the Social-Democratic method of reformist parliamentary action, nor by the Leninist method of a pseudo-revolutionary seizure of state power.
		Feudal society was based on the control of the land by the feudal nobility.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/WoodcockGeorge/ch_12.htm (2986 words)

	Social class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marxists explain the history of "civilized" societies in terms of a war of classes between those who control production and those who actually produce the goods or services in society (and also developments in technology and the like).
		The most important transformation of society for Marxists has been the massive and rapid growth of the proletariat in the world population during the last two hundred and fifty years.
		The increasing dissolution of the peasant-lord relationship (see pre-capitalist societies), initially in the commercially active and industrialising countries, and then in the unindustrialised countries as well, has virtually eliminated the class of peasants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Classless_society (2850 words)

	blog.myspace.com/socialiststandard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It follows that a classless society is one in which the use of the means of production is controlled by all members of society on an equal basis, and not just by a section of them to the exclusion of the rest.
		A class society is a society with a state because sectional control over the means of production and the exclusion of the rest of the population cannot be asserted without coercion, and hence without a special organ to exercise this coercion.
		Since classless society and common ownership are synonyms, and since commodity production is a nonsense on the basis of common ownership, this rupture (revolution) is in fact the same as the one needed to move from class society to classless society.
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	Dictatorship of the proletariat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is a term employed by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program that refers to a transition period between capitalist and communist society "in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat".
		The term refers to a concentration of power in which rule by the proletariat (working class) would supplant the current political situation controlled by the bourgeoisie (propertied class).
		Although Marx did not plan out the details of how such a dictatorship would be implemented, earlier in The Civil War in France (1871), his analysis based upon the experience of the Paris Commune of 1871, Marx pointed to the Commune as a model of transition to communism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat (1171 words)

	Comparative Economic Systems
		This would be a society with only one class, the working class; a society without class distinctions and thus a classless society.
		The socialists felt that a capitalist society is unavoidably divided between the capitalist employer class and the working class of employees, so a classless society would have a non-capitalist economic system.
		In the communist society, the economic rule would be "from each according to his ability, and to each according to his need." But that rule could not be applied in a capitalist society, because of the defective human character capitalism produces.
	william-king.www.drexel.edu /top/Prin/txt/comsysf/cs4.html (1340 words)

	Classless?
		If through complacency, or what we imagine might be self-interest, we choose to pretend that we now live in classless society when in fact we do not, then quite obviously we are in no position to think sensibly about how to achieve the truly classless society that would benefit us all.
		On this classless basis, without the market system, in all the important activities of life, citizens of a genuine community of interests will be able to co-operate to serve the needs of all people.
		As I have emphasised, a classless society based on common ownership is the only way to win freedom for the whole of mankind.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/dec02/classless.html (1317 words)

	Glossary of Terms: Co
		The result of commodification is the break-up of the nuclear family, the demise of the welfare state, the fall of academia from its ivory tower, the break-up of bureaucratism in both public and private enterprises, the professionalisation of caring and the mechanisation of fantasy and play.
		In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
		And the new society itself, during all the two and a half thousand years of its existence, has never been anything else but the development of the small minority at the expense of the great exploited and oppressed majority; today it is so more than ever before.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/terms/c/o.htm (14830 words)

	Tariq Ali
		In speaking of two ways to achieve a classless society I do not claim to have an airtight case that a classless society would be desirable, although I think it would be.
		Starting with such a conception, a way to achieve a classless society would be for the workers to take power, motivated by their collective self-interest.
		Apart from the two ways to a classless society mentioned here one might imagine a society where machines did all or most of the work, and all the people shared ownership of the machines.
	www.global-economy.info /Tariq_Ali.htm (4830 words)

	Marcuse
		He strongly opposes the ideologists of modern capitalist society, who keep claiming that - contrary to what Marx thought, - the classless society is not to be achieved by liquidating the bourgeoisie by a revolutionary process, but by elevating the proletariat into the bourgeoisie by a process of reform.
		Undoubtedly, their approach to a modern classless society is congenial to the newly formed middle class mentality.
		The immanent contradictions of this supposedly one-dimensional – or classless, - society are not properly examined.
	www.jgora.dialog.net.pl /OnTheAbsoluteRationalWill/Marcuse.htm (2519 words)

	The rise of Stalinism
		On the broad scales of history, the emergence of class society was a revolutionary phenomena, in that it freed a privileged section of the population - a ruling class - from the direct burden of labour, permitting it the necessary time to develop art, science and culture.
		Class society, despite its ruthless exploitation and inequality, was the road that humankind needed to travel if it was to build up the necessary material prerequisites for a future classless society.
		What is clear, is that the poorer the society that emerges from a revolution, the cruder, the more bureaucratic and more primitive the forms of the transitional state would be, and the greater the danger of power slipping out of the hands of the working class.
	www.trotsky.net /trotsky_year/rise_of_stalinism.html (14751 words)

	Debs Tendency of the Socialist Party USA - Points of Unity
		Socialism and the classless society can only come about through a transition period, administered by a democratic workers' republic, based on radically democratic assemblies, that break down class antagonisms, organizes production in a way that will provide for all, advances scientific, technological and cultural development, and aids the extension of socialism around the world.
		That is, the earliest phases of the transition from class to classless society will appear as a sweeping democratic revolution, which breaks down the barriers between politics and economic, cultural, and social relations.
		Socialism and a classless society cannot be fully achieved until superoppression is completely rooted out and ended for all time.
	www.debstendency.org /pointsofunity.html (1729 words)

	What is ommon Ownership? and Cooking the Books 1
		When we refer to the society based on common ownership, generally we use the term “socialism”, though we have no objection to others using “communism”, since for us these terms mean exactly the same and are interchangeable.
		A class society is a society with a state because sectional control over the means of production and the exclusion of the rest of the population cannot be asserted without coercion, and so without a special organ to exercise this coercion.
		Socialism can only be a universal society in which all that is in and on the Earth has become the common heritage of all humankind, and in which the division of the world into states has given way to a world without frontiers with a democratic world administration as well as local and regional democracy.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/apr05/whatiscommonownership.html (1789 words)

	New Internationalist Issue281
		Quite the reverse: in a classless society our distinctiveness as individuals would be equally valued and we'd be better able to celebrate it.
		Free education of equal quality for all is fundamental to a classless society.
		In classless societies research and resources would be devoted to healthcare freely available to all, rather than to hugely expensive treatments designed eventually to make the ruling class immortal.
	www.newint.org /issue281/manifesto.html (905 words)

	The myth of a classless America
		WE ARE constantly bombarded with the myth that we live in a classless society.
		Unlike older European societies with a long feudal past, we’re told, the U.S. is based on equal opportunity.
		MARXISTS IDENTIFY the ruling capitalist class in society by recognizing how that class owns and controls what Marx called the "means of production." The means of production are the factories, the offices, the mines, forms of transportation, etc., necessary for producing goods and services.
	www.socialistworker.org /2003-2/464/464_06_Classless.shtml (2225 words)

	Individual and State Roles in Communism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		One of the main roles of the individual in a communistic society is to work for and benefit the community, not for one’s own benefits.
		According to Marx and Engels, all are able to voice their opinions in a communist society and the role of the party and state is to allow and listen to what the people have to say.
		The idealistic society that Marx and Engels envisioned is reciprocative: individuals sacrifice many of their self- interests to the state, and in return, the state provides equality and freedom.
	www.udayton.edu /~s02-102-13-2/tyestebbons.htm (1013 words)

	Nigerian Entertainment Online Magazine
		I don't think a classless society is possible, right from time there has a always been a division a kind of dermacation if you will between groups of people.
		Even in the Soviet union where attempts were made to create a classless society, the end result was mass poverty and economic depression (plus a group of people were still 'in charge' of making decisions.
		Human potentials will be killed in a classless society where everyone is socially conditioned to 'think alike' and 'aim for the same goals'.
	www.nigerianentertainment.com /NENov/d1.htm (714 words)

	Sikhism: Futurist Vision of a Classless Social Order
		Although the terms such as class and classless society were in vogue in the pre Marxian political economic works, the terms became rigorous concepts in the Marxian theory.
		Non-communication of the spirit and body is another expression of the non-communication that occurred between the social divides, for example, between the touchable and untouchable communities in Indian context.
		It was the vision of a society in which no one should be obliged to beg for one’s barest needs and in which one must do some amount of manual labour".
	www.sikhreview.org /march2002/socio.htm (2033 words)

	Evolution and Culture - A Critique of Socialist Party Principles.
		The inevitable product of each system is a class society with gross inequality of privileges, a draining of the productive wealth and goods of the society into military purposes, environmental pollution, and war in which workers are compelled to fight other workers.
		We are dedicated to the abolition of male supremacy and class society, and to the elimination of all forms of oppression, including those based on race, national origin, age, sexual preferences, and disabling conditions.
		The ultimate goal of socialism is a classless society, one in which all are equal.
	www.onelife.com /social/princ.html (4247 words)

	babble: Virtue of Classless Society
		Of paramount importance to all of us everywhere is the pursuit of classless society based on sustainability.
		It is absurd that we are discussing it - as absurd as the Republican pretense that America is a classless society with equal opportunity for all to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
		If her wealth came at the expense of my children's future, and if my children were denied the opportunity to achieve her level of financial stability because of education or health care deficiencies, then I would be furious.
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	Just da FAQ's
		Socialism is the period of transition between the overthrow of bourgeois rule and the development of a classless, communist society.
		Society in which the ruling bourgeoisie slightly betters the conditions of life of the working class and oppressed, through such measures as slightly higher taxation of the capitalists.
		The words "communism" and "socialism" are commonly mis-used to describe a society in which a popular revolution against the ruling class and foreign imperialism results in a radical transformation of property relations and an improvement in the living conditions of the masses.
	www.communism.com /faq.htm (2591 words)

	Part V, Karl Marx Revisited: A Fluid Society
		A political effort aimed at producing a fluid society cannot be half-hearted, as it faces the entrenched power of the established order.
		As long as its problems are not solved, its poison spreads throughout all of society, producing the secondary problems that confound the ruling establishment -- budget deficits, health care, unemployment, education, crime.
		Our world society is much more fluid than it was in his day, but the process of renewal is not guaranteed.
	www.polyconomics.com /searchbase/km5.htm (1404 words)

	The classless society in modern British society
		The first is that the sheer ability to gain genuine pleasure from the lineage, education, titles and general grandeur of someone else represents the absolute antithesis of envy, which Sir Winston Churchill correctly diagnosed as 'that most barren of all vices'.
		Modern British society is suffused with envy and its sister-sin, chippiness, to an astonishing degree.
		Because people they meet outside work tend to judge them on their job title, they said they worked harder to win a better-sounding one than just to get an increase in pay.
	mpelembe.mappibiz.com /Archives_03/British_Society.html (1124 words)

	DSP Program - PartV. The socialist transformation of society
		The aim of the socialist movement is the replacement of capitalist society with a classless society in which social solidarity and production for social need replaces the competitive quest for private enrichment, and in which social wealth can assure the rounded development of all individuals.
		In order for the working class to abolish capitalism and begin building a classless, socialist society — what they called ``communism'' — it must conquer political power and, by degrees, expropriate capitalist property, centralising the means of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class.
		The state institutions of even the most democratic capitalist state serve to uphold the rule, and defend the interests, of the capitalist class, i.e., represent the social dictatorship of the capitalist class, and therefore cannot serve as instruments with which to overthrow that rule and transfer political power to the working class.
	www.dsp.org.au /dsp/program/prog42.html (890 words)

	Communism - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Communism, term in political science denoting either a society where all property is held in common or a political movement whose final aim is the...
		- Marxist-Leninist system: the Marxist-Leninist version of a classless society in which capitalism is overthrown by a working-class revolution that gives ownership and control of wealth and property to the state
		- classless political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all the members of that society
	au.encarta.msn.com /Communism.html (171 words)

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