For Marx, what makes communism the ‘good society’ is ‘the creative manifestation of life arising from the free development of all abilities of the whole person’.21 Many people would, of course, snort at the idea of this being any description at all of a communist society. Others might dismiss it as a hopelessly romantic vision. Such criticisms are, however, immaterial to an understanding of Marx and morality. This is how Marx defines a good society, and he does so not in terms of duty or consequence or self-interest or moral sense but in terms of the development of the whole person.
