 the optimism of Marx, who determined that if he could only put the social constructs in place and deal with the dialectic, if he could only put together the issues of economics in such a way as to redistribute wealth, then there was a tremendous future awaiting everybody. And buoyed by the optimism of that view of history, he launched his crusade. Well, of course, he's dead and buried, and Marxism is pretty well dead and buried along with him.