Karl Marx as Positivist Dispassionate Non-Moral Social Scientist
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The Future Results of British Rule in India by Karl Marx: The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilization lies unveiled before our eyes... [in] the colonies.... The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world--on the one hand universal intercourse... on the other hand the development of the productive powers... scientific domination of natural agencies. Bourgeois industry and commerce create these material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.... [But in] the bourgeois epoch... human progress... resemble[s] that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain...
