The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
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Marx's Critical Utopian Socialism and Communism
Marx turns towards an examination of what he calls critical utopian socialism and communism. He sees this as a socialism that is still grounded in the struggle between classes theorized by people like Saint-Sémont, Foyé, and Owen. But according to Marx, they do not develop a truly proletarian form of socialism. They ultimately see little hope of the conditions of capitalism itself to allow for the proletarian liberation.
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