ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches the development which the interpretation of society in terms of groups has undergone in the last generation. In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. Groups which Ludwig Gumplowicz uses in his interpretations are groups that are concrete in the sense that they are composed of so many different people who can be gathered together in physical separation from other groups. We have the fact that Karl Marx had so little appreciation of the fundamental workings of the group process that he expected classes to disappear in the coming reign of brotherly love. "In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all".
