ABSTRACT
Concepts of liberty, equality, and fraternity had become entrenched throughout Europe. Karl Marx acknowledged that leadership would be necessary. Leaders would be needed to guide the people. The working class cannot succeed in its historical task without a leadership to enlighten and guide it. Leaders emerge through history as they are needed. If not this one, then that one. It matters not who the leader might be, for leadership is determined by chance, by fate, by destiny. Necessity abhors a vacuum. When the need develops, a leader will rise to fill the void. From this, Marx concluded, that in his classless society, there would be no leaders, for the struggle among men will have ended. Liberty, equality, and fraternity would have reached their ultimate fulfillment. All humans would have reached the correct understanding of social and economic development.
