Question

The passage below is an excerpt from Robert Owen's A New View of Society (1813—1816). Use the passage to answer the following question:

Proceed systematically on principles of…kindness, yet retaining and using, with the least possible severity, the means of restraining crime from immediately injuring society, and by degrees even the crimes now existing in the adults will also gradually disappear.—Public Domain

Which theory, described in this passage, was rejected by Karl Marx?

A. laissez-faire economics

B. classical liberalism

C. communism

D. utopian socialism