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Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus-Value, vol. 3:
"[Some old book by some old dead economist] is a real example of feeble-mind thought, which winds its way in a casuistical and self-stupefying manner through its own inner confusion, and whose difficult, clumsy style leaves the unprejudiced and incompetent reader with the impression that the difficulty of making sense out of the confusion does not lie in the contradiction between confusion and clarity, but in a lack of understanding on the part of the reader.''
[The couple of posts I just read on this thread reminded me of this passage. I don't know whether the quotation relates to what's being discussed. As an aside, it is curious to me that here (and a few other passages in his works), Marx uses the term "unprejudiced" negatively. For him, being "prejudiced" -- having some a-priori judgment or knowledge about the matter (not necessarily rigid, but definitely far from the empty-your-mind attitude) wasn't necessarily bad. Sorry for my unprejudiced introjection in this thread.]