The issue is to simply and without mystification look at these relations, and try to understand the forms of consciousness which correspond to them. Just one more point. Thus even before writing the 1844 Manuscripts , and five years before the Communist Manifesto , Marx makes it clear that the communist project at its very root and foundation rejects the totalisation of capital. In the 1844 Manuscripts , Marx goes further. Likewise, he rejects the conception of Religion and Ethics and Political Economy as separate, antithetical domains of consciousness, and struggles for a conception and a practice which overcomes this kind of alienation.
Capital is the practical totalisation of modern life.
If you want to overcome totalisation, then you must overcome capital. That is all.