ABSTRACT
Marxism, liberated from the metaphysical frame in which Marx tried to confine it, can be very easily restated in the form of a practical science. It was created by combining three intellectual disciplines: that of the classical economists, who had occupied themselves with a definition of the existing mechanism of human society; that of the utopian socialists who had put their emphasis upon the delineation of an ideal society; and that of the young Hegelians who were absorbed in the idea of historic process. Marx saw, to begin with, that economics does define the essential mechanism of human society. The Marxian method is to accentuate the class struggle between workers and capitalists, organize it both nationally and internationally, and carry it forward, undeceived by political forms and ideologies, and in full consciousness of the ruthlessness of the forces in play, to the goal of a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
