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“I once went into Manchester with such a bourgeois, and spoke to him of the bad, unwholesome method of building, the frightful condition of the working people’s quarters, and asserted that I had never seen so ill-built a city. The man listened quietly to the end, and said at the corner where we parted: “And yet there is a great deal of money made here; good morning, sir.””
Friedrich Engels -
“Such is the Old Town of Manchester, and on re-reading my description, I am forced to admit that instead of being exaggerated, it is far from black enough to convey a true impression of the filth, ruin, and uninhabitableness, the defiance of all considerations of cleanliness, ventilation, and health which characterise the construction of this single district, containing at least 20-30,000 inhabitants. And such a district exists in the heart of the second city of England, the first manufacturing city of the world.”
Friedrich Engels -
“So – to repeat – was Engels responsible for the terrible misdeeds carried out under the banner of Marxism-Leninism? Even in our modern age of historical apologies, the answer has to be no. In no intelligible sense can Engels or Marx bear culpability for the crimes of these historical actors carried out generations later, even if the policies were offered up in their honour. Just as Adam Smith is not to blame for the inequalities of the free-market West or Martin Luther for the nature of modern Protestant evangelicalism or the Prophet Mohammed for the atrocities of Osama bin Laden, so the millions of souls which Stalinism dispatched (or those who died in Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia or Mengistu’s Ethiopia) do not rest on the account of two nineteenth-century London philosophers – and not just because of the simple anachronism of the charge.”
Tristram Hunt
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- Tristram Hunt (Author)
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- Elizabeth Longford Prize (2010)
- The Orwell Prize (2010)
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