"To start with the Guesdistes, the Marxist fraction in the French socialist movement, did include the nationalisation of land as a major demand in their Le Havre programme of 1880, but the demand took no account of the differences in…
"It is clear that there is no reason to assume, as Marx seems to, that the demand for the nationalisation of land is economically and politically relevant to all capitalist societies. In fact Engels does acknowledge this in a preface…
"(...) Marx und ich haben, seit 1845, die Ansicht gehabt, daß 'eine' der schließlichen Folgen der künftigen proletarischen Revolution sein wird die allmähliche Auflösung und endlich das Verschwinden der mit dem Namen 'Staat' bezeichneten politischen Organisation, einer Organisation, deren Hauptzweck…
"Bien sûr, la conception matérialiste de l'histoire et la théorie de la valeur ont une immense importance, aussi bien comme arme de classe du prolétariat que pour la science en général. Il y a plus de science véritable dans le…
"Although they were settled in England by the 1860s, Marx and Engels cannot fail to have been influenced by the build-up of the Prussian/German Army under Bismarck and the Elder Moltke, and by the three successful wars which culminated in…
"Ho accennato - ma l'ho svolta altrove, e qui non è il caso di svilupparla a fondo - alla possibilità di riconoscere in Marx, anche se non senza contraddizioni, una distinzione tra il concetto di istruzione "tecnologica" e quello di…
"So bene che queste definizioni (regno della libertà, regno della necessità) forse già nel Settecento, ma certo soprattutto nell'Ottocento (Schiller - è stato detto - Hegel, Marx, Engels, eccetera) erano locuzioni correnti; e so che l'uso di queste locuzioni è…
"A partir de 1872, quand la censure impériale autorisa la première traduction russe du 'Capital', le marxisme influença l'ensemble de l'intelligentsia, qu'elle fût intégrée ou radicale. On sait que Marx est passé par une crise de russophobie qui l'amena à…
"Die früheste Verbreitung des 'Manifests' in China. Im Jahre 1899 begann die Verbreitung von Auszügen aus dem 'Manifest' in China and im August 1920 hatte Chen Wangdao, ein Kommunist der Frühzeit, das die Programmschrift vollständig übersetzt und herausgegeben. Darin kann…
"One of the chief sources of Lenin's political thinking prior to 1914 had been Marx's 'The Holy Family' of 1844, which he had read and summarised in a notebook in 1895. He had been particularly interested by the chapter headed…