The practical measures proposed in them such as the abolition of the distinction between town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private in dividuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the functions of the State into a mere superintendence of production, all these proposals point solely to the disappearance of class antagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up, and which, in these publications, are recognised in their earliest, indistinct and undefined forms only.