Marx, Utopianism, Arendt, Greece

On Hannah Arendt’s view, Marx’s utopian version of a classless society was curiously-similar to the ideal of life in a Greek city-state, which he studied intently (not a monstrous totalitarian communism), but it was his glorification of labor that made him exceptional as a thinker. – Hannah Arendt, Thinking Without a Bannister