Note 894 — Chapter II · : STATE SOCIALISM

“Communion or community of labour would be a better term than division of labour” (Kapital, p. 74); and in another connection: “The only real division of labour is territorial division of labour” (ibid.). Elsewhere (p. 87) he warns his readers against confusing the terms “social” and “national.” Adopting the Saint-Simonian philosophy of history, he declares history to be a process of unification which brings gradually widening circles into closer unity with one another (Zur Geschichte der römischen Tributsteuer, in the Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie u. Statistik, 1865, vol. v, p. 2). “The course of history is just the expansion of communism.” (Kapital, p. 85, note.)