The faith in the "civilizing influences of capital" (Marx, _Grundrisse_, <http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/f501-550.htm>) is one of those Zombie categories. The faith in the "civilizing influence of capital" _minus_ the faith in an imminent advent of transition to socialism which Marx, et al. had is doubly living dead. **************************** I'm familiar with Marx's views on primitive communism which is followed by the social revolution of private property, the monogamous family and the State and the stages of class society which follow, where the producers move the material conditions necessary for the next stage to appear and which lead up to capitalism and the material conditions necessary for the social revolution, to a classless socialist society. I was wondering whether you have you got a link or two to share, showing where Marx is proclaiming his *faith in an imminent* advent of the transition to socialism?
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