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Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League

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basically he's saying they should wait cus the productive forces aren't there yet

Our party can only gain power when the situation allows it to put its own measures into practice. Louis Blanc is the best instance of what happens when you come to power prematurely. (p327)

Marx, K. (2000). Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League. In Marx, K. Karl Marx: Selected Writings. Oxford University Press, pp. 326-328

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[...] The majority would be justified in dissolving the London branch and expelling the minority as being in conflict with the principles of the League. I do not wish to put a motion to that effect as it would cause a pointless scandal and because these people are still communists in their own view even though the opinions they are now expressing are anticommunist and could at best be described as social-democratic. [...]

lmao so petty

—p.327 by Karl Marx 6 years, 9 months ago

[...] The majority would be justified in dissolving the London branch and expelling the minority as being in conflict with the principles of the League. I do not wish to put a motion to that effect as it would cause a pointless scandal and because these people are still communists in their own view even though the opinions they are now expressing are anticommunist and could at best be described as social-democratic. [...]

lmao so petty

—p.327 by Karl Marx 6 years, 9 months ago