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Viewed historically mankind has taken only the first steps toward the realizing of a new human community, for which many great humanists and whole movements, embued with a Utopian vision of a new world, have been ready to offer the greatest self-denial and sacrifice. Nor can the greatest scepticism with regard to the methods employed negate man’s results in every realm of culture, science, conscience and even morality. But it can not be concealed that this entire ascent has occurred at a price — with countless victims, suffering and deprivation of rights affecting whole categories and classes of people. More human relationships have been established by inhuman methods.
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These views are a red thread extending through Marx’s and Engels’ Works from the ‘40s to their lives’ end. Already in his polemic with Ruge, Marx emphasized that “the fragmentation, the villainy, the slavery of civil society is the natural foundation upon which the modern state is established, just as the civil society of slavery was the natural foundation upon which the state of antiquity was based. The existence of the state and the existence of slavery are inseparable.” (K.M. Critical Remarks to the article, ‘The Prussian King and the Social Reform, By a Prussian.’ K. Marx, F. Engels, Works, vol. 1, Dietz verlag, (Berlin, 1961), p. 101. These ideas also appear in the German Ideology as well as in the Manifesto where Marx and Engels foresee the abolishment of the political character of public authority: “When class distinctions shall have disappeared in the course of development and all production shall be concentrated in the hands of associated individuals, public authority will lose its political character. Political power in the true sense is the power of one class organized for the exploitation of another class.”
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Vranicki, P. (1979). Theoretical Foundations for the Idea of Self-Management. In: Marković, M., Petrović, G. (eds) Praxis. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9355-6_15
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