The
French
socialist
and
communist
literature
was
thus
completely
emasculated
And
since
it
ceased
in
the
hands
of
the
German
to
express
the
struggle
of
one
class
with
the
other
he
felt
conscious
of
having
overcome
French
one
sidedness
and
of
representing
not
true
requirements
but
the
requirements
of
truth
not
the
interests
of
the
proletariat
but
the
interests
of
human
nature
of
man
in
general
who
belongs
to
no
class
has
no
reality
who
exists
only
in
the
misty
realm
of
philosophical
fantasy


This
German
socialism
which
took
its
schoolboy
task
so
seriously
and
solemnly
and
extolled
its
poor
stock
in
trade
in
such
a
mountebank
fashion
meanwhile
gradually
lost
its
pedantic
innocence


The
fight
of
the
Germans
and
especially
of
the
Prussian
bourgeoisie
against
feudal
aristocracy
and
absolute
monarchy
in
other
words
the
liberal
movement
became
more
earnest


By
this
the
long
wished
for
opportunity
was
offered
to
True
Socialism
of
confronting
the
political
movement
with
the
socialistic
demands
of
hurling
the
traditional
anathemas
against
liberalism
against
representative
government
against
bourgeois
competition
bourgeois
freedom
of
the
press
bourgeois
legislation
bourgeois
liberty
and
equality
and
of
preaching
to
the
masses
that
they
had
nothing
to
gain
and
everything
to
lose
by
this
bourgeois
movement
German
socialism
forgot
in
the
nick
of
time
that
the
French
criticism
whose
silly
echo
it
was
presupposed
the
existence
of
modern
bourgeois
society
with
its
corresponding
economic
conditions
of
existence
and
the
political
constitution
adapted
thereto
the
very
things
those
attainment
was
the
object
of
the
pending
struggle
in
Germany


To
the
absolute
governments
with
their
following
of
parsons
professors
country
squires
and
officials
it
served
as
a
welcome
scarecrow
against
the
threatening
bourgeoisie


It
was
a
sweet
finish
after
the
bitter
pills
of
flogging
and
bullets
with
which
these
same
governments
just
at
that
time
dosed
the
German
working
class
risings


While
this
True
Socialism
thus
served
the
government
as
a
weapon
for
fighting
the
German
bourgeoisie
it
at
the
same
time
directly
represented
a
reactionary
interest
the
interest
of
German
philistines
In
Germany
the
petty
bourgeois
class
a
relic
of
the
sixteenth
century
and
since
then
constantly
cropping
up
again
under
the
various
forms
is
the
real
social
basis
of
the
existing
state
of
things


To
preserve
this
class
is
to
preserve
the
existing
state
of
things
in
Germany
The
industrial
and
political
supremacy
of
the
bourgeoisie
threatens
it
with
certain
destruction
on
the
one
hand
from
the
concentration
of
capital
on
the
other
from
the
rise
of
a
revolutionary
proletariat
True
Socialism
appeared
to
kill
these
two
birds
with
one
stone
It
spread
like
an
epidemic


The
robe
of
speculative
cobwebs
embroidered
with
flowers
of
rhetoric
steeped
in
the
dew
of
sickly
sentiment
this
transcendental
robe
in
which
the
German
Socialists
wrapped
their
sorry
eternal
truths
all
skin
and
bone
served
to
wonderfully
increase
the
sale
of
their
goods
amongst
such
a
public
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