out of the multiplicity and the uncertainty of first
impressions, and instead of a chronological or synchronous series, or a
view of the whole, he can arrive at the concrete series of a real
_processus_.

In the presence of these realistic conditions all the ideologies founded
on the ethical mission of the state or on any such conception, fall to
the ground. The state is, so to speak, fitted into its place, and it
remains encased, as it were, in the surroundings of the social
development, in its capacity of a form resulting from other conditions,
and in its turn, by reason of its existence, reacting naturally upon the
rest.

Here arises another question.

Will this form ever be outgrown?--or can there be a society without a
state?--or can there be a society without classes?--and if we must be
more explicit, will there ever be a form of communist production with a
distribution of labor and of tasks such that there will be no room in it
for the development of inequalities, that source of domination of man
over man?

It is in the affirmative answer to this question that _scientific
socialism_ consists, in so far as it affirms the coming of communistic
production, not as a postulate, nor as the aim of a free volition, but
as the result of the _processus_ immanent in history.

As is well known, the premise of this prevision is in the actual
conditions of present capitalist production. This, socializing
continually the mode of production, has subjected living labor more and
more with its regulations to the objective conditions of the technical
process, it has day after day concentrated the property in the means of
production more and ever more into the hands of a few, who as
stockholders, or speculators, are always found to be more and more
removed from immediate labor, the direction of which passes over to
intelligence and science. With the increased consciousness of this
situation among the proletarians, whose instruction in solidarity comes
from the actual conditions of their employment, and with the decrease of
the capacity of the holders of capital to preserve the private direction
of productive labor, a moment will come, when in one fashion or another,
with the elimination in every form of private rent, interest, profit,
the production will pass over to the collectivist association, that is
to say, will become communistic. Thus will disappear all inequalities,
except those of sex, age, temperament and capacity,