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These associations were first a part of that greater civilized , semi-civilized , or directly barbarian society , in which they developed during the first three centuries . These human characteristics , which , once that a condition of economic inequality exists among men , make any religious association similar to any other government of things in this world , show at a glance that an association of saints can never have had any other but a utopian form , and on the other hand they show to us a constant tendency toward intolerance and toward catholicism in its various forms , to the extent that this association , forgetting the simple martyr of Nazareth , whose form has been left hanging pathetically to the cross on the altars , has made its kingdom of this world . It is again Marx who tells us so . If I were to abandon myself to the sweep of conversation , who knows where I would stop ! The sane and veracious part of the socialist movement ( which has no other duties to perform for the present under the prevailing circumstances but to prepare the small middle class for democratic education ) therefore contains admixtures of elements , who would have to admit to themselves , if they wanted to be honest with themselves , that they are decadents , that they are not moved to bestir themselves by the strong will to live , but by a vague satiety with the present . They are also involved with the production of the comprehensive Global Environment Outlook – 4 report due in 2007 . The first is , that no wise man will ever succeed in giving us an idea of this universal philosophy in two columns of Critica Sociale . Therefore I did not have to familiarise myself first with the dialectic mode of thought , or the evolutionary or genetic method , whatever you wish to call it , before I could understand scientific socialism , for I had lived in this circle of ideas ever since I had begun to think consciously . They touch the bottom of things . I gladly let the free reviewer enjoy his liberty of opinion , so long as it does not pass in the eyes of the reader for a complement of my own , and at that as a complement endorsed by myself . Furthermore , the mass of the associates always preserved in their hearts , and carried into their inmost beliefs and into their legends , many of the superstitions and most of the myths which had been theirs before they were converted , and they had to use these , and create others , in order to make the metaphysical and abstract doctrines of Christianity in some way plausible for themselves . They may operate with different magnitudes and directions than those of the initial stage , and they may emerge or disappear as circumstances dictate . It seems to me , first of all , that you ask , not on account of any curiosity of your own , but because you artfully place yourself into the position of your readers : Is there any way to explain to us in an easy and clear manner in what consists that dialectics which is so often invoked for the elucidation of the gist of historical materialism ? I had occasion , as I said once before in another letter , to occupy myself at length in my academic lectures with Fra Dolcino , who marks the culmination and impending decline of the Apostolic sect . It is these means which made of the Christian association a vital thing , as they do of any other human collectivity . Once more , then , it is not the natural course of the political changes of civilized Europe which has induced the socialists to change their tactics ( the author could not tell us how long the present tactics will , or may , last ) , but it is the ideas which change and must change . On the other hand , those deceive themselves who believe that every commotion of the multitude in this country , such as we have witnessed several times in various places of Italy , is an indication of a proletarian movement , which has for its concrete basis the economic struggle and turns its aspirations more or less explicitly in the direction of the socialism of other countries . The driving forces control trends which are themselves influenced by social , economic and environmental conditions ( Gallopin and others , 1997 ) . Well , there are thus many auguries for the new year , which commences tomorrow , in this benign and pitiful work of salvage , which , by the way , neither I nor a good many others like myself feel in need of .