The Philosophical Synthesis of Marx Not very long ago it was extremely fashionable among official men of learning to say that Marx had really produced nothing new in the philosophical sphere. Such a well-known philosopher as Wilhelm Wundt in his Introduction to Philosophy wrote "This lack of clarity in its metaphysical premises (i.e. of Marxism. N.B.) has a comprehensible basis in the fact that practical questions alone interest sociological materialism. Therefore the system …
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…the system of ideas of the proletariat. To-day the bourgeoisie is again seizing on the conservative side of the once mighty system of its greatest philosopher and, purging it of any really valuable elements, is coming out under the flag of neo- Hegelianism. But it is not Chronos who devours his own children. This is only an old myth. The proletariat strikes a mortal blow at capitalism. Marxism liquidates the outworn mental categories of the