 | Eric Cummins - 1994 - 358 Seiten
...in 1971, Marx himself had claimed a place in the revolution for criminals, writing that they were as capable of "the most heroic deeds and the most exalted...sacrifices, as of the basest banditry and the dirtiest corruption."1 The prison revolutionary leader the Left sought would have to be one who proudly celebrated... | |
 | Bob Jessop, Russell Wheatley - 1999 - 606 Seiten
...renounce "their lazzaroni character"; but, he continued, those same guards were "thoroughly malleable, as capable of the most heroic deeds and the most exalted sacrifices as of the basest banditry and the foulest corruption."62 But if the lumpenproletariat can as easily be exalted as base, its identity... | |
 | John Martin Gillroy, Joe Bowersox - 2002 - 406 Seiten
...1848, Marx echoes Plato's conclusions1 about the average citizen: "[They were] thoroughly malleable, as capable of the most heroic deeds and the most exalted sacrifices as of the basest banditry and the foulest corruption. The Provisional Government paid them one franc 50 centimes a day, that is, it bought... | |
 | Joy James - 2003 - 398 Seiten
...struggle. With the declassed character of lumpenproletarians in mind, Marx had stated that they are as capable of "the most heroic deeds and the most exalted...the basest banditry and the dirtiest corruption.'"* He emphasized the fact that the provisional government's mobile guards under the Paris Commune —... | |
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Government recruited them, thoroughly malleable, as capable of the most heroic deeds and the most exalted sacrifices, as of the basest • ' banditry and the dirtiest corruption. 