workers are producing for the whole of society, that labour, as the phrase goes, has been socialised. But control and profit are still in the hands of the capitalist.
Such a centralisation and concentration of production actually paves the way for cooperative production after the proletarian revolution.
Had this concentration of production not taken place, if the proletariat were to seize power at a time when the work of production was carried on in a hundred thousand tiny workshops each employing no more than two or three workers, it would be impossible to organise these work-shops satisfactorily, to inaugurate social production. The further capitalism has developed and the more highly centralised production has become, the easier will it be for the proletariat to manage production after the victory.
THUS CAPITALISM DOES NOT MERELY CREATE ITS OWN ENEMIES AND DOES NOT ONLY LEAD TO THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION, BUT IT BRINGS INTO BEING THE ECONOMIC BASIS FOR THE REALISATION OF THE COMMUNIST SOCIAL ORDER.