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Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it.

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Allen W. Wood
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 1
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Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.
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The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.
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