"The police-tinged bourgeois mind naturally figures to itself the International Working Men's Association as acting in the manner of a secret conspiracy, its central body ordering, from time to time, explosions in different countries."
— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
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Date
1871
Metaphor
"The police-tinged bourgeois mind naturally figures to itself the International Working Men's Association as acting in the manner of a secret conspiracy, its central body ordering, from time to time, explosions in different countries."
Metaphor in Context
The police-tinged bourgeois mind naturally figures to itself the International Working Men's Association as acting in the manner of a secret conspiracy, its central body ordering, from time to time, explosions in different countries. Our Association is, in fact, nothing but the international bond between the most advanced working men in the various countries of the civilized world. Wherever, in whatever shape, and under whatever conditions the class struggle obtains any consistency, it is but natural that members of our Association, should stand in the foreground. The soil out of which it grows is modern society itself. It cannot be stamped out by any amount of carnage. To stamp it out, the governments would have to stamp out the despotism of capital over labor -- the condition of their own parasitical existence.
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Provenance
Searching "mind" at www.marxists.org
Citation
Marx, Karl. The Civil War in France. Based on English Edition of 1871. Transcribed for marxists.org by Zodiac & Brian Basgen, corrected by Matthew Carmody, 2009. <Link to www.marxists.org>
Date of Entry
07/28/2009
