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ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism succinctly explains how capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction.

2. The People’s Role in History
To comprehend the people’s role in history, one needs to understand how it contributes to society's material and spiritual life.
We know that the people is the producer of all material wealth, both the means of subsistence and of production being obtained by its efforts. Engels wrote that nature was the mother, and labour the father, of wealth. But whose labour is it? Who works on the objects of labour and remakes nature, compelling the natural properties of

things, the forces of nature to serve man and even creating new qualities and forces not found as such in nature? It is men, the working people, who are the most honourable and important on Earth. The people alone creates all material wealth of society by its labour.
Then, what part does the people—the working people above all—play in the system of production? First of all, let us recall that the workers engaged in material production make up a part of the productive forces. They constitute living labour. Without it, dead labour stockpiled in the means of production cannot return to life. Although the character of the productive forces does not depend on men’s choice, it is still the working people who, in conjunction with the instruments of labour (which may be individual or social, based on a division of labour or otherwise, involving simple or complex cooperation) actually determine the character of production and so of the productive forces in general. And this is an essential characteristic of material production, determining to a great extent the development of society.

Now let us look at the working people’s role in production relations. It would be incorrect to assume that in economic systems based on exploitation the relations of production are represented merely by the owners of means of production, i.e, by the exploiters, not the workers. No doubt, the most vivid embodiment of capital are the capitalists. Nevertheless, capital in its bourgeois form (unlike usury capital, for instance) exists only insofar as the workers’ labour power is a commodity which the capitalist can buy and which is consumed in the process of production organised on capitalist lines. Labour power is as essential to the capitalist economy as capital itself. Its owners are the proletarians—a class which has a decisive role in history—and which constitutes, in our own age, the bulk of the people.
The capitalist mode of production breeds the proletariat and helps it develop into a world revolutionary force. That is the key point of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
Bred by capitalist society, the proletariat is the exponent of new social relations and a force which is to destroy capitalism.

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ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism
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