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They still dream of experimental realisation of their social

Utopias, of founding isolated "phalansteres," of establishing

"Home Colonies," of setting up a "Little Icaria"-duodecimo

editions of the New Jerusalem-and to realise all these castles in

the air, they are compelled to appeal to the feelings and purses

of the bourgeois. By degrees they sink into the category of the

reactionary conservative Socialists depicted above, differing

from these only by more systematic pedantry, and by their

fanatical and superstitious belief in the miraculous effects of

their social science.

They, therefore, violently oppose all political action on the

part of the working class; such action, according to them, can

only result from blind unbelief in the new Gospel.

The Owenites in England, and the Fourierists in France,

respectively, oppose the Chartists and the "Reformistes."

IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS

EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES