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And these outlooks are no mere expectations of conditions which only ought to come, which we simply wish and will, but outlooks on conditions which must come, which are necessary. Certainly not necessary in the fatalist sense, that a higher power will present them to us of itself, but necessary, unavoidable, in the sense that the inventors improve technic, and the capitalists, in their desire for profit, revolutionise the whole economic life, as it is also inevitable that the workers aim for shorter hours of labour and higher wages, that they organise themselves, that they fight the capitalist class and its state, as it is inevitable that they aim for the conquest of political power and the overthrow of capitalist ruling. Socialism is inevitable because the class war and the victory of the proletariat is inevitable.