Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter rebuts the objection that Marx came to reject the mutualist interpretation in his later writings in favour of a more practically achievable account of the good society that sees people realizing themselves outside of socially necessary labour. It accepts that Marx’s writings contain two different accounts of work in the good society: one in which people realize themselves in work and one in which people realize themselves outside of it. However, it argues that Marx never decisively rejects the former view. Rather, he oscillates between two different positions throughout his lifetime. Having defended this interpretive claim, the chapter then argues that the alternative account of the good society, in which people realize themselves outside work, provides no reason to reject the mutualist interpretation’s vision of the good society.</jats:p>