Manchester Squalor Gave Marx’s Theories Human Form

[marmar]

Manchester Squalor Gave Marx’s Theories Human Form: Mary Gabriel

September 25, 2011, 8:22 PM EDT
By Mary Gabriel


Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- In the spring before he and Friedrich Engels left for England, Karl Marx began sketching out ideas for a book they would write together that would get them past the “theoretical twaddle” and illustrate that to have meaning, ideas -- be they religious, political or economic -- must be rooted in the real world.

German intellectuals in particular had been confined to the loftiest realms of philosophy out of necessity, because the government banned them from discussing or publishing anything that might be recognizably pertinent to daily life. Even the socialists used vague words like “humanity” and “suffering” to obscure their intended meanings -- man and starvation. But Marx and Engels argued conditions required that the theoretical veil be lifted and the material truth exposed.

In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” written at this time, Marx famously summed up the problem: “Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”

With that call to action, he and Engels set off for England. ...........(more)

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[blindpig]

1. Or, in another's words.....

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Mao Tse-Tung

k&r

[jwirr]

2. Reading about the condition in Manchester gives a whole new

meaning to Oliver Twist and Little Tim. And a whole new meaning to how bad it could really get if the corporatist are not brought down.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[intaglio]

4. Check Gustave Dore

Just do an image search for Gustave Dore London. It is to that condition that the "robber barons" want to return the masses