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"evolutionist" view of the future which regards it simply as more of the present. It is simply the present writ large

Some conservatives are utopianists, but their utopia lies in the past rather than the future. In their view, history has been one long, doleful decline from a golden age

As a materialist, Marx was chary of ideas which were divorced from historical reality, and thought that there were usually good historical reasons for this separation.

Marx's theory of history is not a "teleological" one. A teleological theory holds that each phase of history arises inexorably from what went before.

Social democracy is one bulwark between itself and disaster.