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Economic coordination was not just desirable but essential. As help from Austria could not be expected, Prussia pressed ahead independently and set up a customs union, the Zollverein, in 1834. Prince Metternich was not impressed, and
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“Our task as historians is to make past conflicts live again; not to lament the verdict or to wish for a different one. It bewildered me when my old master A. F. Pribram, a very great historian, said in the nineteen-thirties: 'It is still not decided whether the Habsburg monarchy could have found a solution for its national problems.' How can we decide about something that did not happen? Heaven knows, we have difficulty enough in deciding what did happen. Events decided that the Habsburgs had not found a solution for their national problems; that is all we know or need to know. Whenever I read the phrase: 'whether so-and-so acted rightly must be left for historians to decide', I close the book; the writer has moved from history to make-believe.”
― The Trouble Makers
― The Trouble Makers
“Revolutions in short are made in the name of the proletariat, not by it, and usually in countries where the proletariat hardly exists.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
“There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.”
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