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Nationalism and Marxism (List Vs Marx)

Karl Marx and Engles postulates a nation-less society based upon pan-human communalism. The various divisions in the society like politics, religion, ethnicity etc prevent man from realising his species being, wherein his true fulfillment lies. The real destiny of man is to be free of the constraints imposed by these divisions and also by any social roles and at the same time some ‘hidden hand’ will automatically incorporate him in a harmonious universal community.  However, they did not elaborated about this hidden hand. Class is the key to understand the mechanics of human alienation and human liberation.(Why? obvious reasons). So it is both noxious and historically relevant. The other category which suffers from the double indignity of being both noxious and unimportant is proletariat and it will liberate mankind from the class endowed society altogether. The single most crucial and disastrous error in Marxist system is the supposition that communist societies will not ...

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