People today, most of whom lack ownership of the means of production, often frown upon our desire to abolish capital, the means of bourgeois exploitation, senselessly neglecting in the process a simple yet profound truth of the capitalist mode of production, namely that only a minority of the whole truly experiences this private ownership of the means of production, while the rest do not and toil as a result. People, the majority of whom again lack ownership of the means of production, frowned upon this desire even in Karl Marx’s time, who consequently stated in the Manifesto of the Communist Party, "You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society." It is therefore precisely because of this lack of ownership of the means of production for the majority of society that consequently makes their frowning amusingly ironic.
