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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific -- Friedrich Engels
Red Menace
Is Marxism Deterministic or Mechanistic?
I think in this text, Ingalls frequently, it sounds like he's not talking about the proletariat as the revolutionary force. And I can really easily see how someone who's not paying attention to that could come away with a very deterministically read of Marxism from this text. We can't just sit back and think, well, with technology advancing, the productive forces will change such that socialism is an inevitability in the next century or whatever. First of all, we don't have that time. And second of all, you fundamentally don't understand the mechanism by which a proletarian revolution comes to the fore.
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