8. Classless Utopia as Final Goal
Marx’s ultimate vision was a cooperative paradise where people contributed “according to ability” and received “according to need.” He imagined a society without classes, states, or oppression where human potential could fully flourish. “In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all,” he wrote, describing a harmonious social order.
