ABSTRACT
The fact that Karl Marx’s ‘utopia’ can only be assembled by collating a series of disparate remarks seems to indicate that there was more to Marx’s ‘utopianism’ than the act of simply describing a utopia. Take the abolition of private property as an example. In communism, says Marx, its place will have been taken by ‘the possession in common of the land and of the means of production’. For it seems that the higher phase of communism does indeed involve a new concept of human potentialities, does indeed involve the development of individual capacities, and does indeed involve the assimilation of the world by the human subject. In communism, says Marx, its place will have been taken by ‘the possession in common of the land and of the means of production’. Marx’s ‘science’ was proving that class antagonisms will disappear, so that the Utopians’ negative measures were correct in spite of the fantastic utopian alternatives they erected in their place.
