This is one of my favorite passages from Marx. (And I loved a free tranlation of the first part in MR some years ago: "Since it is not our thing to write recipes for the cookshops of the future") But I have always considered it the point of departure for the reject ion of utopianism, not as utopian itself. Please explain.
Carrol
"christian a. gregory" wrote:
> Another response to the "pro-what?" question:
>
> "If we have no business with the construction of the future or with
> organizing it for all time, there can still be no doubt about the task
> confronting us at present: the _ruthless criticism of the existing
> order_, ruthless in that it will shrink neither from its own
> discoveries, nor from conflict with the powers that be."
>
> Marx s letter to Ruge, Sept. 1843
>
> Utopian? Yes. But better than the utopianism of the market any day.
>
> All best
> Christian