 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Marx adopted this [Hegel's] philosophy of history, with only two slight modifications. He changed the name of the World Conductor to "Dialectical Materialism", and he substituted classes for nations. At one time the feudal aristocracy were the vehicle of progress; at the French Revolution this role passed to the bourgeoisie; at the Communist Revolution (which turned out to be not that of 1848) it was to pass to the proletariat. The Communist Revolution having now taken place in Russia, Russian imperialism has become justified equally on Marxist and on Hegelian principles..
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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