1. sparknotes.com

    It can be very difficult to figure out what Marx believed a Communist society would look like. What hints does he give in the Manifesto about his vision of this future society? How does this vision compare with "Communist" societies that arose in later years (e.g., in the Soviet Union)?
  2. blanqui.kingston.ac.uk

    Cabet, with his Icaria and its attempt to establish a communist community in Nauvoo, 19 made the mistake precisely of conflating the regular ideal of the future with the empty hypotheses peddled by our tin-pot revealers [révélateurs de pacotille]. His is therefore an even greater failure than that of his emulators - communism being a ...
  3. socialistparty.org.uk

    Given all that had been learned over 40 years, Engels was therefore at pains to point out that many of the specific demands listed at the end of the second chapter, the 'What we stand for' of the Communist League in 1848, already needed to be worded differently. So, nobody should read the Communist Manifesto looking for a set of instructions.
  4. Communism is attained-if that would make the task of portrayal less embarrassing to the experts. Again, demands upon the Communists for a description of full-blown Communism have often been met by them with the statement that a fully developed Communist society is still so remote that its outlines cannot be foreseen with clarity.
  5. My meaning might be clearer if put this way. Prior to November of 1917 communism was only a fantasy. When the Bolsheviks seized power, the fantasy became a reality. A change, big with future portent, occurred. The fantasy produced a new reality, the reality of communism in power. Communism in power became, for all practical purposes, communism.
  6. journals.sagepub.com

    Dec 25, 2023This basic difference between our views on what makes communism possible generates a further difference on the nature of a future communist society. Consider The Communist Manifesto's famous description of communism as a society in which 'the free development of each is a condition for the free development of all' (CM: 506). In an ...
  7. nyuscholars.nyu.edu

    Recognition of the trends and their meaning has led to a renewed interest in Karl Marx's vision of the communist society. Marx construed his vision of communism out of the human and technological possibilities visible in his time, given the priorities that would be adopted by a new socialist society. ... Radical Visions of the Future (Vol. 2 ...
  8. en.wikipedia.org

    Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') [1] [2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, [1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone ...

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