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Mid 19-century German socialists functioned as contemporary economic centrists, Marx says.

He further that said socialists loved to philosophize about “the general human aspects of society” and other such vague, philosophical, intentionally not grounded concepts.

So basically, Marx doesn’t like centrists because they’re functionally conservatives in saying “everyone’s good!“ Including the bourgeois.

This is an embarrassingly poor introduction thus far. I do not demand of Gareth Jones that he be a Marxist or even favour it, but thus far he has varied from conspiracy and maligning the text with accusations of crypto-religious idealism to seemingly writing off the later portion of Marx’s work? Of course the Manifesto was outdated after its publication, Marx lived another ~40yrs and evolved his theory and thought!