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The significance of Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism

bears an inverse relation to historical development. In

proportion as the modern class struggle develops and takes

definite shape, this fantastic standing apart from the contest,

these fantastic attacks on it, lose all practical value and all

theoretical justification. Therefore, although the originators of

these systems were, in many respects, revolutionary, their

disciples have, in every case, formed mere reactionary sects.

They hold fast by the original views of their masters, in

opposition to the progressive historical development of the

proletariat. They, therefore, endeavour, and that consistently,

to deaden the class struggle and to reconcile the class

antagonisms.