The Marxist promise of Heaven on Earth

 

. In a 'normal', pre-revolutionary state of things, 

everybody is fighting his own particular battles (workers are striking for better wages, feminists

 are fighting for the rights of women, democrats for political and social freedoms, ecologists against the 

exploitation of nature, participants in the peace 

movements against the danger of war, and so on). 

Marxists are using all their skill and adroitness of argument to convince the participants in these 

particular struggles that the only real solution to their problem is to be found in the global

 revolution: as long as social relations are 

dominated by Capital, there will always be sexism in relations between the sexes, there will always be a

 threat of global war, there will always be a danger

 that political and social freedoms will be suspended, nature itself will always remain an object of ruthless 

exploitation