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societal advancement and genetic drift

So Marx makes two predictions that do not seem to follow from the basic theory of historical materialism. This yields a startling result: one can believe Marx’s theory of history, yet argue that within this theory there is no good reason to think that capitalism will end, or, if it does, that it wi…

—p.111 Why Read Marx Today? Assessment (100) by Jonathan Wolff
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human beings invented God

Suppose, then, that Feuerbach’s thesis is true: human beings invented God. Marx’s innovation is to attempt to explain why it is true. Yet should we accept that religion has its source in our misery, and, specifically, the misery of alienation? One difficulty is that even in relatively affluent soci…

—p.103 Assessment (100) by Jonathan Wolff
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this is how families work

Finally, a quick word about distribution. How should goods be allocated to individuals? Marx’s dictum that each would contribute according to their ability, but receive according to need obviously anticipates a world in which everyone willingly pulls their weight—they do what they can. They do not …

—p.98 Class, History, and Capital (48) by Jonathan Wolff
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communism as an asymptote

Communism is not for us a state of affairs which is to be established, or an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. (M. 187)

—p.93 Class, History, and Capital (48) by Karl Marx
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Marx and Bakunin

One important dispute revolved around Marx and the leading anarchist Bakunin. Marx had argued that after the revolution there must be a period of ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ in order to expunge from society those still existing elements of the capitalist economy. But sooner or later this revo…

—p.92 Class, History, and Capital (48) by Jonathan Wolff