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Do you think things will get better? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by daggermoon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I don't mean better for you or me but better in general. Do you believe our species will ever reach some form of enlightenment or will we destroy ourselves?

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

The basic DNA of humans is that our ideas form from our Material Conditions, and the driver of this is the mode of production.

What "Utopias" are you referring to, here? The old, Utopian socialist of Owen's kind, or the modern, Marxist form of Socialism (which rejects the term "utopian")?