Karl Marx

productive powers of labor is necessary for society,the import of his argument is that he is demanding thesame conditions for beasts which look like men, as wedo for real men.With these observations, we have tightened thecircle around the University of Berlin as Dr. Marxencountered it. We must tighten that circle twice more,before we shall have isolated the connection of Dr.Marx's fanatical hatred and that which M. Carnotexemplifies for him. We shall now examine, first, the M. Gaspard Mongecamp to which Dr. Marx was enlisted in Berlin, whichwe shall accomplish by examining the doctrine whichwas employed to alter the organization of his mind inthat circumstance. We shall next show how thatdoctrine employed to alter Dr. Marx's intellect viewedits object of hatred within that same university, thedepartment of philology, where the party of HerrHumboldt and M. Carnot was encamped. That willdraw the circle tight around the connection which we Herr Alexander von Humboldthave pledged ourselves to expose.The Jacobin's faction to which Dr. Marx was" enlisted at Berlin defined itself in relationship to ProfessorsHegel, Savigny, 69 and Ludwig Feuerbach. ThisJacobin's faction, which styled itself the left-Hegelians,developed as a Jacobin sub-species of Hegelian, firstly,by arguing it to have been Hegel's notable includederror that he had argued for the adoration of the samePrussian state which theJacobins proposed to ransack.This proposition required the consolation of such formof rationalization as might rank equal in apparentintellectual authority with the work of Professor Hegelhimself. That rationalization was provided by a professorof theology earlier regarded as Herr Hegel's true this century. He established his reputation by adoptingheir, Herr Feuerbach. In a book which conquered the the function of ridiculing the work of Professorsopinion of the left-Hegelians at first assault, Herr Immanuel Kant and Schelling, and willfully falsifyingFeuerbach's The Essence of Christianity, the Hegelian history. 71system was turned upside-down, and reestablished on Professor Hegel was the author of what is called athe premises of a hedonistic principle. In this way, Dr. system, whose distinguishing feature he identified as aMarx became a "materialist." Herr Feuerbach dis- method he named "dialectical." This choice of nametanced himself from the Hegelian system during and was a fraud. The term, "dialectical," up until that timeafter the events of 1848 and 1849. In that, he left his signified the method of the Socratic dialogue. Herrearlier admirer, Dr. Marx, behind: Dr. Marx has Hegel's method was that of the direct adversaries ofcontinued to profess Herr Feuerbach's "materialist" Socrates and his method, the Sophists. This methodreconstruction of the Hegelian system, at least as he superimposed upon the worst features of the systemrecently as the publication of Capital, but he remains of M. Ren6 Descartes and the philosopher Benedictotherwise within the bounds of the doctrines of Pro- Spinoza. Herr Hegel taught that the universe of sensifessorsHegel and Savigny. _° ble objects, as distinguished from the willful mind ofProfessor George Hegel, who lived from 1770 to man, was a fixed ordering, like the world of Aristotle1831, was, while a student, a red-eyed adherent of or the mechanical system of M. Descartes. The spirit-Robespierre's following in Germany. He first gained a ual, or infinite and willful aspect of the whole wasdegree of influence at the University of Jena after death confined to an ordering of transformations in forms ofhad removed Professor Frederick Schiller from his post society according to a predestined plan, which plan heas the exponent of universal history there. He made professed to have discovered and to have made cornhisname by cultivating the acquaintances of the influ- prehensible to those who would duplicate the dialectientialHerr Goethe and Professor Joseph Schelling, a cal syllogisms of his elaborated system.leading apostle of the philosophers Ren6 Descartes and Dr. Marx's susceptibility to Herr Feuerbach's trans-Benedict Spinoza in Germany during the early part of formation of the Hegelian system was provided byCAMPAIGNER / October 1983 25