To Marx any talk of rights possessed by people equally, unalienably, absolutely, and universally would have to await the communist epoch when all persons will have reached a common nature, total equality and perfection. Until then people are in a state of incompletion and imperfection, incapable of justifying equal human rights.

p. 41 - Human Rights and Human Liberties: A Radical Reconsideration of the American Political Tradition, 1975