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Fragment of the Draft of "The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution"
| Author(s) | Karl Marx |
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| Written | December 1848 |
Printed according to the manuscript
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 8
This fragment is apparently part of the draft of the fourth article in the series "The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution" which dealt with Hansemann and the Government of Action (see Note 153) he in practice headed. Some of the ideas were reflected in the published version of the article (see this volume, pp. 168-70).
5) ... in a word low ... thus even these unseemly things already made him into a type characteristic of the class which he represented, and thus lent him a charm of his own for the impartial observer of Prussian bourgeois natural history.
Let us pass on from the programme to its execution, and let us not forget that the Hansemann Ministry characterises the epoch in which the upstart German philistine is at pains to play the role of the English or French bourgeois.
Hansemann, characteristic of his Ministry....