Marx and Engels’ Vision of a Better Society

Al Campbell

Forum for Social Economics, 2010, vol. 39, issue 3, 269-278

Abstract: Notwithstanding their much noted aversion to detailing the nature of a post-capitalist society, Marx and Engels indeed have a broad vision of such a better society that both runs through and informs their entire lives' work. It is rooted in their concepts of the inherently social nature of humans and potential authentic human development in accord with human nature, and the negation by humans as the active agents of history of the barriers posed to that development. This paper discuses their dialectic approach to defining a better society, their concept of human nature that it rests on, and finally specifies a number general aspects they give for a better future socialist society.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s12143-010-9075-4

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