quote analysis

I found a quote from the passage of Minimum wage at page 23(PDF). “In bourgeois

society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates

the past.” the reason why I found this quote is this sentence is really hard to understand when I

first read this, after that. I read multiple times, I kind of understand what this sentence means.

from my standpoint, the past not just means the past, deeply, the “past” means the machine,

factory and the technologies. The “present” means workers or proletariat. During that time

bourgeois have the factory or machine, so workers have to sell their manpower. “the past

dominates the present” also means bourgeois dominates proletariat. During the Communist

society, proletariat don’t need bourgeois’s factory or technology. Which means bourgeois

society disappear. “the present dominates the past” means proletariat dominates bourgeois.

This kind of like right now in China, workers have the technology not just the capitalist.