Marx’s Vision of Future Society

I n his Paths in Utopia, Martin Buber distinguished between two modes of what he called eschatological thinking: the prophetic and the apocalyptic. In the prophetic mode, the central theme is the preparation of humanity for the hour of redemption; the purification of the spirit and the opening of hearts toward the moment of future salvation and emancipation. In the apocalyptic mode, the process of redemption is already predetermined in all its details; men are merely its instruments, and the ...