SCIENCE AND REVOLUTION 



Marx, under these circumstances, did not stop 

 at the point where Bauer and Feuerbach had 

 rested in their advance. He pushed ahead with- 

 out them, and was gradually compelled, by the 

 exigencies of the political situation, to combat 

 them. In the endeavor to better understand the 

 relation of philosophy to politics, he first under- 

 took to submit the Hegelian legal philosophy to 

 his scrutiny, with a view of determining the rela- 

 tion of political freedom to human freedom. 

 He opened his critique with these words : " The 

 criticism of religion ended with the statement 

 that man is for man the highest being. This 

 is equivalent to the categorical imperative to 

 abolish all conditions in which man is a degraded, 

 oppressed, forsaken, despicable being." This 

 requires a political revolution. What are the 

 conditions under which such a revolution can 

 take place? In analyzing this problem, Marx 

 discovered that the conditions for such a revolu- 

 tion had not yet matured in Germany. But at the 

 same time, he answered the question in such a 

 way that it was solved for Germans as well as 

 for all other nationalities. 



" In order that the revolution of a nation and 

 the emancipation of a definite class may coincide, 

 in order that one class may be the representative 



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