If we now look a little more closely at these forces, and at our own present economic system, then we can see that our theoretical criticism is borne out by experience. But we must be on our guard against misinterpreting experience in the light of the Marxist prejudice that ‘socialism’ or ‘communism’ is the only alternative and the only possible successor to ‘capitalism’. Neither Marx nor anybody else has ever shown that socialism, in the sense of a classless society, of ‘an association in which the free development of each is the warrant for the free development of all’8, is the only possible
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