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“Earlier socialists thought that to substantiate their views it was enough to show the oppression of the masses under the existing regime,… to show that this ideal system harmonized with “human nature”…. [Marx] did not confine himself to describing the existing system; to judging it, and condemning it; he gave a scientific explanation of it…. He showed the necessity of exploitation under that system.”