Socialism and Slavery

The fundamental principle of Marxism can be formulated as: Technology renders Slavery obsolete.  Marxist concepts such as Exploitation, Class Conflict, and Proletariat, are various allusions to Slavery, i. e. to the necessity of having to work for another, and the abolition of Property that Socialism achieves begins with that of the ownership of the work of another, i. e. Technology replaces the latter.  Accordingly, the otherwise problematic relevance to Socialism of Dialectical Materialism comes into sharper focus--it is a Materialist response to Hegel's 'Master-Slave Dialectic', while the history of technological development, i. e. of the Means of Production, can be interpreted as teleologically determined by the goal of the elimination of the need for a Slave class.