The Second Central Idea of Marxism

Marx was virtually the only person who tried to convert the very vices of his age into guarantees of future virtues. In all previous human thought, there was a certain assumption on the part of human beings that any man could in principle understand any other man. If i couldn't persuade him, if i couldn't get him to see my point of view by persuasion, which is one of the arts of politics - violence might have to be applied. The whole theory of persecution was founded upon the possibility of communication,. provided these rather terrible obstacles somehow be liquidated.