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 Human alienation will disappear through the withering away of commodity production and social division of labour, through the disappearance of private ownership of the means of production.
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 These theses written in the context of the 1970s 'autonomia operaia' in Italy intend to initiate a debate on workers’ control of the factories as a 'democratic and peaceful' road to socialism.
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