MARX: I am red not because I am embarrassed, Socrates, and unable to answer you. I am red because I am angry at your injustice. Your critique of my philosophy of history so far—or rather, of only the first sentence of it—has not been historical, but only logical. You have used that abstract and timeless logic that you invented, rather than the concrete and moving logic of history that I learned from Hegel. So your critique is as unfair as if you would
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