Tom Lehman wrote:
> And the winner is...Charles Brown
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> Charles Brown wrote:
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> > said the Dead German philosopher who changed the world
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Yes and no. In the first instance (and this accounts for his becoming what he was rather than just another bright philosopher) he recognized that the European working class was already engaged in a struggle to change the world. It distorts Marx's thought to see it as coming, in the first instance, from Hegel, Ricardo etc. rather than from his joining that already ongoing struggle and attempting to explain it to itself (and as the Theses show, first of all to himself). The priority of practice to theory (both in principle and in crude chronological terms) is central to marxism. I think the German went,
In der Anfang war der Tat.
Carrol