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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels
Red Menace
The Third Idea Is That Capitalism Is Human Nature
The idea that capitalism and bourgeois democracies are the end all be all of economic and political systems. The state is often seen as something inherent to societies and civilization, not as a manifestation of underlying class antagonisms which develop change. This outlook results in justification for punitive approaches to crime and moralizing approaches to poverty. And then finally, and this applies to many leftists as well I think, just like the entire world is a process, so too is the transition to socialism.
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