ABSTRACT
The strongest disagreement between Karl Marx and the utopians was that relating to the role of reforms that could be attempted by a liberal government. Marx had expressed his fundamental ideas on this point in the preface to Capital. Utopian ideologies are always based on the fundamental distinction between intellectual leaders and thinkers on the one hand and the governed and indoctrinated workers on the other. The industrial syndicates have led many people to return to ideas that are close to those of the utopians. Certain thinkers criticize social antagonisms and suggest fantastic solutions thereof, which the mass of workers is left to accept, to preach, and put into practice. The old social unity that had allowed society to be compared to an organism had been broken in the most advanced countries, and it appeared to Marx that this unity could never be reestablished.
