“But if man is supposed to have the highest intelligence in existence then it becomes his manifest duty to remake the world.  Naturally, Marx believed this task was the inescapable responsibility of the Communist leaders since they are the only ones who have a truly scientific understanding of social and economic progress.  Marx and Engels accepted the fact that the remaking of the world will have to be a cruel and ruthless task and that it will involve the destruction of all who stand in the way.  This is necessary, they said, in order to permit the Communist leadership to wipe out the social and economic sins of human imperfection in one clean sweep and then gradually introduce a society of perfect harmony which will allow all humanity to live scientifically, securely, and happily during all future ages.”

 

(from THE NAKED COMMUNIST by W. Cleon Skousen, 1961, page 38)