At 08:03 PM 3/3/2005, Paul surprised in Michigan wrote:

>Wow! Does this come from Das Kapital? Of all the blather about Marx I've
>heard over the years, this is new to me. Does this mean that Marx thought
>royal rule was less perverse than capitalism? An interesting concept it
>is, where Karl would have supported the Tsars! Or am I reading it wrong?

According to Marx, capitalism was supposed to be a stage on the way to
communism. Tsarist Russia had very little capitalism, which means the
revolution in a sense was premature.

I suppose you could argue that Russia went through a period of forced state
capitalism under Trotsky and Lenin.

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which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him
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