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Mehring:
A good decade later Marx referred to his erstwhile attitude towards the
League of the Just in the words: “We issued a series of pamphlets, some
of them printed, others lithographed, mercilessly criticizing the
mixture of Anglo-French socialism or communism and German philosophy
which represented the secret teachings of the League. We put forward
instead a scientific insight into the economic structure of bourgeois
society as the only tenable basis, and set forth in a popular form the
principle that the task was not to work out a utopian system but to
participate consciously in the historic process of social transformation
taking place before our eyes.”
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The quote from Marx above basically describes the plot of Raoul Peck's
film as Marx argues with Proudhon, Weitling and others about the need to
establish socialism on a scientific basis. Can you imagine Peck
approaching someone in Hollywood to bankroll a film based on such a premise?
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