The aristocracy and nowadays that also includes the middle classes has
exhausted itself; such ideas as it had, have been worked out and utilised
to their ultimate logical limit, and its rule is approaching its end with
giant strides. The Constitution is its work, and the immediate consequenc
I know, I think, that Engels' THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND
had a great influence on Marx, leading to their collaboration, I
believe. My memory is very bad. And I have no idea without checking what
philosophical content this book has, but I can['t help by being struck by
the c
It didn't take long to find the first quote I was looking for. It was of
course in Marx's "Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegels
Philosophy of Right", which contains a dozen of his juiciest passages. I
phrase I had in mind was "But man is no abstract being squatting outside
Looking over the Theses on Feuerbach, one wants to reproduce the whole
thing without taking anything out. And all my other quotes are out of
context, thus perhaps distorting the overall picture of what Marx was
dealing with, while applicable to entirely different situations. Then
again, I've
