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Rh lution and Counter-Revolution in Germany." This series of articles was up to a few years ago credited to Marx; the publication of the correspondence between Marx and Engels, however, shows without a doubt that they were written by Engels. "Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany" is but a continuation of the historical work commenced in "The Rhenish Review," and its purpose was to show the inner connection, or as Buckle is so fond of saying, "the logical connection," i.e., the historical mechanism of the struggles in the first half of the nineteenth century.

As you will recollect, in his studies, Marx had gone from philosophy to history, and from history to political economy. It is, therefore, quite logical to deduce that a close study of the political class struggles, which since the seventeenth century had swept furiously over Europe as revolutions, brought him in contact with the power or driving forces behind and responsible for these upheavals. According to the Historical Materialism of Marx and Engels, in order to intelligently explain the social and political life of capitalist society, the economy or industrial structure of that society must be first investigated and its origin, motive forces, laws and course of development explained. To this task Marx devoted himself during the years of his exile in London, an exile which lasted until his death, with an industry, enthusiasm and disinterestedness truly unparalleled in the history of modern science. As Klara Zetkin so symbolically states: "He devoted himself to this task with the bee-like industry and the patience of the scientist and the revolutionary fervour of the Socialist." The first fruits of his labor were contained in his "Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie" ("Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"), published in 1859, a book which was but a preliminary study of or an introduction to his greatest work "Das Kapital" ("Capital").

The first volume of "Capital" appeared in 1867. It would be the height of folly to even attempt to give a somewhat compre-