GOVT2112 Lecture 14: WK 14 Karl Marx
23 Dec 2018
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The principles of the manifesto are correct in 1972 as they were in 1848. The practical application of the manifesto however depends on the historical conditions of the time. One thing especially was proved by the commune, viz. , that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes. But then, the manifesto has become a historical document which we have no longer any right to alter. The tsar was proclaimed the chief of european reaction. Today, he is a prisoner of war of the revolution in gatchina. But in russia we find, face-to-face with the rapidly flowering capitalist swindle and bourgeois property, just beginning to develop, more than half the land owned in common by the peasants. In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.
