as well as to their bosses, that Marx principally (and passionately) addressed his commentary. The structure of social control over the individual, caused by the very existence of private property is the chief actor in the environment of control in his view, and private property is the equivalent of capitalism, which is the dominant feature of the prevailing social system in his view. The social conflicts created when labor, which comprises the mass of individuals in society, serves the interest of private property are the core of all social problems and of all problems historically experienced by individuals in the social system. "Division of labour," he writes, "implies the contradiction between the interest of the separate individual family and the communal interest of all individuals who have intercourse with one another (Marx, "German" 160)."
Implicit in this description are individual social and economic problems--poverty, the urban malaise, mass unemployment--which Marx traces to capitalism. Only radical transformation, indeed destruction of the society, can address its errors. Any objection to his view is answered with the assertion that the source of the objection is bourgeois. What that means is that Marx invites individuals who are oppressed by private property, more exactly by the social system defined by and identified with private property, to come together as a mass, in the shape of the proletariat--and more, in the shape of he dictatorship of the proletariat--and engage in the destruction of private property, or capitalism. Only by uniting as a mass--directed, to be sure, by revolutionary party cadres responsible for party discipline and effective action--can individuals experience anything like equity of human experience with the ruling classes. As he states in the Manifesto:
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away wit...