ABSTRACT
It hardly occurred to Marx that socialism would arrive before capitalism had ‘exhausted’ its creative potential, and he believed that this potential was sufficient to raise the productive forces of the society to the level of abundance. In this perspective, socialism could be located squarely in the political and cultural sphere of the social organisation; it would be possible, indeed, only in so far as the capitalist venture, in its own crude and ruthless manner, liberated society from economic scarcity and, therefore, from slavery to Nature and necessity.
