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In the age of representative government, every class strove to identify its form of revenue with the general interests of society. [...]

Marx, it must be noted, was not seeking to provide an all-purpose account of human history that would address such complicating objections and qualifications. The meaning of his draft of historical materialism can only be understood in the polemical context of the inversion of historical idealism

eventually, the thorough deracination of the entire Mediterranean world

Later solutions would entail a more radical break with the premises of these earlier histories of civil society, and not just with their mystified Hegelian sublimations