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Originally Posted by Gwaihir
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There's always going to be some sort of power behind the curtain developing and maintaining a system of order and "morality" to govern the affairs of men. Idealizing a fantasy that removing the vase in which the water retains it's shape, or is somehow going to facilitate the water self-organizing to take on a more utopic shape is asinine.
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when feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people. various socialist doctrines immediately emerged as a reflection of and protest against this oppression. early socialism, however, was utopian socialism. it criticised capitalist society, it condemned and damned it, it dreamed of its destruction, it had visions of a better order and endeavoured to convince the rich of the immorality of exploitation.
but utopian socialism could not indicate the real solution. it could not explain the real nature of wage-slavery under capitalism, it could not reveal the laws of capitalist development, or show what social force is capable of becoming the creator of a new society. not a single victory of political freedom over the feudal class was won except against desperate resistance. not a single capitalist country evolved on a more or less free and democratic basis except by a life-and-death struggle between the various classes of capitalist society.
the genius of Marx lies in his having been the first to deduce from this the lesson world history teaches and to apply that lesson consistently. the deduction he made is the doctrine of the class struggle. independent organizations of the proletariat are multiplying all over the world, from america to japan and from sweden to south africa. the proletariat is becoming enlightened and educated by waging its class struggle; it is ridding itself of the prejudices of bourgeois society; it is rallying its ranks ever more closely and is learning to gauge the measure of its successes; it is steeling its forces and is growing irresistibly.