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The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century

Isaiah Berlin

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The Maja Ideas Which Mark Puttacross, and With Which He Influenced His Audiences and Ultimately the World

I don't propose to spell out the familiar structure of marx's thought. I propose to concentrate only upon what appears to me to be the most arresting and original of his ideas, those which have had the deepest effect until this day. The first is his monism, the fact that he believed that all things, both nature and history, both man and objects, can ultimately be explained in terms of one vast single hypothesis. And this had, of course, extremely powerful political implications in the form in which he gave it. Second is the division of the world into the children of light and children of darkness, which also had an extremely violent, sometimes beneficent, more often devastating effect upon

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