"And once the lightning of thought has squarely struck this ingenuous soil of the people, the emancipation of the Germans into men will be accomplished."
— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
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Date
December 1843-January 1844
Metaphor
"And once the lightning of thought has squarely struck this ingenuous soil of the people, the emancipation of the Germans into men will be accomplished."
Metaphor in Context
As philosophy finds its material weapon in the proletariat, so the proletariat finds its spiritual weapon in philosophy. And once the lightning of thought has squarely struck this ingenuous soil of the people, the emancipation of the Germans into men will be accomplished.
(Cf. p. 65 in Tucker ed.)
(Cf. p. 65 in Tucker ed.)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Karl Marx, "A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Introduction," Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 7 & 10 (1844). <Link to marxists.org>
Reading in Robert C. Tucker, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition (New York: Norton, 1978)
Reading in Robert C. Tucker, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition (New York: Norton, 1978)
Date of Entry
04/22/2013
