ass, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class (Marx, 2002, p. 214).
The fact that the bourgeoisie benefits from its position of power and the fact that this power is intimately and specifically intertwined with the oppression of labor combine to explain why the bourgeoisie is no longer fit to rule. The concentration of capital and control of labor, which now alienates the bourgeoisie from the great mass of society in a positive way, makes the fall of the bourgeoisie and indeed of capital, or property, appropriate and imperative. As he states in his Manifesto:
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 [i.e
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