d suggested it would actually happen in the near future. However, by 1890 private property, especially in the areas of transportation and heavy industry, had tightened its influence over most governments of the Western world and held great sway over many aspects of the lives of individual citizens (Harding, 1998, p. 34). Indeed, it could be argued that in 1890 private enterprise was at its unfettered peak û though troubles in the form of unionization and general discontent were flaring up and looming ever-larger on the horizon. Indeed, forty-two years after the manifestoÆs publication, the ôspectreö described by Marx and Engels as ôhaunting Europeö seemed like one more idea that might come true, after all.
Marx and Engels also called for and forecast the abolition of the family û perhaps their
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