Ignorance for it has never entered the head of any Socialist to 'promise' that the higher phase of communism will arrive; and the great Socialists, in foreseeing its arrival, presupposed both a productivity of labor unlike the present and a person unlike the present man in the street who, like the seminary students in Pomyalovsky's story, is capable of damaging the stores of social wealth 'just for fun,' and of demanding the impossible.