er . . . The latter, however, feels destroyed in this alienation, seeing in it its own impotence and the reality of an inhuman existence" (Marx 133-4).
Marx fuses the notions of power and class oppression, by the ruling bourgeois classes, of the proletariat, and it takes the form of control of labor and production. In the Manifesto of the Communist Party he develops the idea that, via revolution, power relationships can be transformed.
When, in the course of development, 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 class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the rul
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