Anarcho-Socialist party

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Marx wrote in 1872:  “All socialists understand this by Anarchy: once the aim of the proletarian movement, the abolition of classes has been attained, the state power which serves to keep the great productive majority under the yoke of an exploiting minority small in numbers, disappears, and the governmental functions are transformed into simple administrative functions”.At the conclusion of the Proudhon critique 'The Poverty of Philosophy', Marx writes:  “there will be no more political power properly so-called, since political power is precisely the official expression of antagonism in civil society”.We are in agreement with the Anarchist Communist Peter Kropotkin and his ideas expressed in the pamphlet 'The Wages System': he refutes any concept of L TV’s:  1.it makes no sense trying to measure an individuals contribution to production when it is cooperative and social, 2. if production was still individual it would not be fair to ration a person's consumption by number of hours worked because skills being used would have been acquired and benefited from previous society and earlier generations,  3. L TV’s to regulate consumption would be to retain the wages system, 4.goods and services would have Labour Time prices and would be subject to supply and demand, inflation, devaluation, therefore it would be a monetary system.  Kropotkin:  “A society that has seized upon all social wealth, and has plainly announced that all have a right to this wealth, whatever maybe the part they have taken in creating it in the past, will be obliged to give up all ideas of wages, either in money or in labour notes”.Also see ALB talk Summer School 1994: http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/what-marx-should-have-said-to-kropotkin.htmlWe recommend The Conquest of Bread (1892), Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899) and, above all, Mutual Aid (1902)

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