![]() ![]() The Manifesto instead tells us to take up the tasks we are capable of resolving - and by “us,” Marx and Engels mean not individuals or an aggregate of individuals but a class determined by economic processes. ![]() So it makes no sense to establish a dualism between the present and the future if we reasoned according to this dichotomy, then we would be condemned either to desire the impossible or else to suffer the curse of Adam and accept suffering and poverty as divine punishments. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels tell us that the future is harbored within things themselves, and that is why it is rational to desire it. The Communist Manifesto, first published on this day in 1848, doesn’t suggest that we should imagine the future. ![]()
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