edded into the structure of control is the fact that more laborers are always available to serve the needs of capital, even if some laborers should withdraw their work from the marketplace. Conflicts created when labor, which is only an instrument of production, serves the interest of private property, which controls production, are at the heart of all social and economic problems.
From this fact flow two terms that recur throughout Marx's work: alienation and division of labor. Revolution, in Marx's analysis, is inevitable because labor accumulates indignation at being alienated socially, not only from the upper class but also from itself, inasmuch as labor has few options for self-actualization; it is always dependent on selling its labor for mere survival. The experience of indignation as alienation that marks the fact that there are different classes in any society and that this class antagonism. The antagonism inevitably leads to the revolution that will abolish class differences. The class-based analysis of alienation and power relationship in Marx's Manifesto becomes the basis for Marx's analysis of the proletarian indignant response to the situation as the only true form of revolution. It flows from the notion of power as class oppression of the proletariat by the ruling bourgeoisie and the indignation of the proletariat at being oppressed, which oppression takes its form as control of labor and production and the persistence of class division. The Manifesto program seeks to transform power relationships in an ideal way so as to create the classless society that will end oppression once for all.
When . . . class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. . . . If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a cl...