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Marx and Engels new that their belief system was based on a "void" and reached this conclusion 100 years ahead of McAdams. They identified the void as "alienation", not emptiness. Marxism was the proposed cure for alienation by putting everyone on a level economic playing field. Unfortunately, for Socialsm to work, it required a perfect self-sacrificing materiality rejecting human ... thus its utter failure as a solution.