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The need that pushes the Communists to fight for maximum clarity and consistency with respect to the revolutionary tasks of the proletariat derives from the unique nature of the proletarian revolution. While the bourgeois revolution (Great Britain, France, etc.) was essentially the political coronation of bourgeois economic domination over society that had gradually and firmly spread over the vestiges of the decadent feudal society, the proletariat does not hold any economic power within capitalism and, in the period of decline, any permanent organization of its own. The only weapons he can use are his class consciousness and his ability to organize his own revolutionary activity. And once the power is taken from the hands of the bourgeoisie, the immense task of consciously building a new social order is opened before it.

Capitalist society, like all class societies, grew regardless of the will of men, through a slow "unconscious" process, governed by laws and forces that were not subject to human control. And the bourgeois revolution simply took on the task of expelling the feudal superstructures that prevented the generalization of these laws. Today, it is the very nature of these laws, their blind, anarchic and commercial character, which threatens to bring human civilization to ruin. But despite the apparently immutable nature of these laws, they are, ultimately, only the expression of the social relations that men have created. The proletarian revolution means a systematic assault on existing social relations linked to the ruthless laws of capital. It can only be a conscious assault because it is precisely the unconscious and uncontrolled character of capital that the revolution seeks to destroy; and the social system that the proletariat will build on the ruins of capitalism is the first society in which the human gender will exercise rational and conscious control over the productive forces and over all human social activity.

What forces the proletariat to confront and destroy the social relations of capital - wage labour, widespread production of goods - is that they have entered into open conflict with the productive forces, whether the material needs of the proletariat or the productive forces of human society as a whole. The decline in the social relations that dominate the proletariat leads it to be given as the first task, in our time, the destruction of these relations and the establishment of new ones. Therefore, its task is not to reform, reorganize or govern capital, but to liquidate it forever. Decadence simply means that productive forces can no longer develop in the interest of humanity as long as they remain under the yoke of capital, and that true development can only take place in communist production relations.