That's sure not how the Manifesto reads.
In fact, Marx's belief in progress is something that has been frequently attacked by conservatives of the TS Eliot variety.
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
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>
> The "some sense" is an important qualification.
> He doesn't
> seem to have believed in the kind of Whig idea of linear
> progress -- each stage an "improvement" on the
> last --
> that most of our contemporary Pwogwessives continue
> to hold.
>