
The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century
Isaiah Berlin
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Mark Objected to Themselves
marks objected to words like universal human rights, or freedom and justice. He genuinely thought that n the mouth of the proletariat these words meant something different from what they would mean in the mouths of other persons. And there for the use indiscriminately o a language common with that of the bourgeoisie was a recognition of the existence of certain common values. The whole point of his doctrine was the denial of just that. There is constant protest, mark's part, against the use of expressions of this styme,. which distressed and surprised his followers who saw no harm in them at all.
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