First of all, the first part of the * * * Declaration has a positive evaluation of the historical position of capitalism. For example, "the bourgeoisie has played a very revolutionary role in history." "Capitalism has created more productive forces in its less than one hundred years of class rule than all the productive forces created by all previous generations." The establishment of capitalist mode of production greatly promoted the development of productive forces, which inherited all the productive forces created by society in the past. Capitalism is socialized mass production, and the socialization of production began when capitalism entered the historical stage. The capitalist mode of production has transformed the scattered small-scale individual production into a large machinery industry with division of labor and cooperation. This change overthrew the craftsmanship of craftsmen for hundreds of years, which was a drastic change in social production relations and made the production process more and more socialized. Capitalism defeated feudalism and established a new system more suitable for social development, which greatly promoted the development of productive forces.
But the * * * declaration also pointed out that the capitalist system will be replaced by the socialist system. "(Bourgeois) it ruthlessly cut off all kinds of feudal fetters that bound man and natural leaders, and it made people have no other connection except naked interests and ruthless cash transactions." When capital relations become all relations in capitalist society, the development of capitalism has reached an unprecedented height. It developed socialized mass production and eventually "made all countries in the world produce and consume". Marx had already foreseen the inherent trend of capitalist globalization, and at the same time pointed out sharply that the development of capitalism "forged a weapon to kill himself". This is the inherent contradiction between the ownership of the means of production based on private ownership and the socialization of production. Today, in the tide of economic globalization, the huge unbalanced production capacity in the world can not be accommodated by narrow and rigid private ownership, and the development of productive forces will eventually break through the cage of production relations. Capitalism has also "produced people who can use this weapon-modern workers, that is, proletarians." At present, the working class is not only extremely large, but also at a loss in the trend that traditional production is replaced by machines with increasingly developed technology. From the perspective of pure capital profit, the importance of workers in production is weakening. Is it because of this that society will abandon workers? On the contrary, it means the liberation of labor, and people will have more free time after production. The liberation of social production cannot be stopped. Only at this time can capitalist relations of production truly become an obstacle to social progress. Marx believes that the external obstacle to the universality pursued by capitalism is the product of natural alienation of capital itself, which can only be found in capitalist relations of production. In other words, a series of contradictions brought about by capital expansion cannot be overcome by capitalism itself. "The industrial progress that the bourgeoisie inadvertently caused and was unable to resist made the revolutionary unity achieved by the workers through unity replace their scattered state caused by competition." Only the joint system of the working class, that is, the brand-new socialist system, can fundamentally solve the problems faced by capital. A large number of facts show that although contemporary capitalist countries have improved the level of social productive forces through self-adjustment, improvement and improvement, science and technology, especially high and new technology, have made great progress, and labor-capital contradictions and other social contradictions have been alleviated to a certain extent, capitalist private ownership and its essential characteristics have not changed, and the inherent contradictions of the capitalist system have not been solved. There are still a lot of economic, political, cultural and social problems in western countries, especially the concentration of wealth, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the increase of crime.
The Declaration correctly evaluated the historical position of capitalism with dialectical materialism. This makes us realize how to evaluate capitalism with correct standards. Only by correctly understanding the progressive and positive functions of capitalism and its insurmountable defects can we "take its essence and discard its dross", better develop socialism and show its advanced nature.