vate property sounds" when "the monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with it, and under it." When "centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument." According to the Marxian philosophy a system of production can only last as long as it helps, or at least does not hinder, the unfolding and full exploitation of the productive forces of society, and must give way to another system when it becomes a hindrance, a fetter, to production. That a system has become a hindrance, and a fetter to production when it has reached the point when it can only exist by preventing production, and by wasting what it has already produced, goes without saying. Such system cannot therefore last very long, quite irrespective of the purely mechanical possibility or impossibility of its continuance. Such a system has become historically impossible, even though mechanically it may still be possible. As we have seen, the capitalist system has reached that point: The capitalist system must go.
