
The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century
Isaiah Berlin
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The Scale of Values
When in 19 hundred three, on the famous occasion of the splitter i nd bolsheviks and mensheviks, tehanof and alftame linen said that elementary human rights might have to be suspended. When people were shocked by that bhat, what was the scale of values in terms of which they were shocked? The scale of values was some kind of non marxed scale because if you were a consistent marxis, you said to yourself, here are two classes locked in mortal combat. What we must do with the leaders of the progressive class is to do whatever is going to accelerate the coming of the revolution. Anything which militates towards that end is good
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