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Rh France or at least French capitalism was organizing gigantic accumulations of wealth for exploitation. In the sixties, Marx sees how victorious capitalism invades Austria, Italy, yes even Bohemia. He also is compelled to witness the liberation of the serfs by Alexander II., and thus receives valid indications that capitalism has also commenced to revolutionize the empire of the "little father." He further observes how capitalist production spreads across the ocean, and how the new world also succumbs to the irresistible economic forces making for social progress. Everywhere he sees the advancing forces, the dynamic powers of capitalist production, undermining and destroying the old economic foundations, and setting in their place devices more competent to carry on the process of production. And to be sure, these economic revolutions were bound to be followed by corresponding political upheavals whose aim and object it was to adapt the political institutions to meet the requirements of the new and changed economic conditions. The new capitalist society in the making was no exception to the rule: the nineteenth century may be correctly called a century of political revolutions.

In this manner, historical development presented to or spread before the eyes of Marx incomparable economic and political material: data as important to the searching eye of a student as the compass is to the destination of a ship. This development was internationally so plainly conceivable as the growth of plants in a hot-house, and quite naturally attracted the attention and animated the deeper searching intellects of the world to explain the underlying forces of this gigantic process. However, that Marx was able to penetrate and master this large, manifold and chaotic mass of material, that he was able to crystallize the results of his investigation in a manner as clear as crystal, he owes to the German classical philosophy. This philosophy gave him the scientific equipment, the scientific training, without which his achievements would have been impossible.

When the youthful Marx, imbued with an insatiable desire