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Marx predicted correctly, though with an unjustified gkee, „the withering away“ of the public realm under conditions of unhampered development of the „productive forces if society“, and he was equally right, (…), when he foreswae that the "socialized men“ would spend their freedom from labouring in those strictly private and essentially worldless activities that we now call „hobbies“

Fortune depends on luck (…) although most people in their "pursuit of happiness“ run after good fortune (…) as though it were an inexhaustible abundance (…) There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration (…), and whatever throws this cycle out of balance (…) ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive