THE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION BY MARX IN 1852
THE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION BY MARX IN 1852* “In 1907, Mehring, in the magazine Neue Zeit134 (Vol. XXV, 2, p. 164), published extracts from Marx’s letter to Weydemeyer dated March 5, 1852. This letter, among other things, contains the following remarkable observation:“And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes. What I did that was new was to prove: (1) that…