on with the interests of all others, leads to the experience of alienation, in the very center of the social environment, and in the very center of individual life.
Implicit in this description are individual and societal economic and social problems--poverty, urban malaise, the specter of mass unemployment on one hand and intolerable conditions of employment on the other--that Marx traces to capitalism. Only radical transformation, which is very much to say the outright destruction of the society as it is known, can address its errors. Any objection to his view is answered with the assertion that the source of the objection is bourgeois, or more exactly, "bourgeois clap-trap." He develops the ideas that lead to such a characterization of the reality of the world in detail 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 with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nin
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