We can therefore see clearly before us a struggle which will end in realising a 286 society wherein the means of production are communised, and a relative equality of condition as compared with modern capitalistic society will be attained. This and nothing less than this will be the beginning of Socialism in the true sense of the word; but it cannot stop at this point, but must have an immediate further development, and one which we can conceive of as being directly deducible from it. This must form the subject of our next and concluding chapter.
Footnotes
- On the ridiculous assumption that this is intended rests many a “crushing” indictment of Socialism, e.g. it constitutes the marrow of Herr Eugene Richter’s Socialdemocratische Zukunfts-bilder [London 1893] (Pictures of the Socialistic Future).Back
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