In these formulas, which may be developed, as I have had occasion to show elsewhere, is, summed up every forecast of the future, which is not and is not intended for a romance or a Utopia. And in these very formulas there is an adequate and conclusive response to the question with which this chapter began: Is there in the series of historic events a meaning and a significance?
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[28] This genetic study forms the subject of my first essay, In Memory of the Communist Manifesto, which is the indispensable preamble to an understanding of all the rest.
[29] (I allude to the excellent work of Karl Kautsky, Die Klassengensaetze von 1789.)
[30] The Italian edition of this Essay bears the date of March 10, 1896.
[31] Marx, Misere de la Philosophie, Paris, 1817, p. 178.
[32] Communist Manifesto, p. 16.
[33] Marx, Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie, Berlin, 1859, p. 6 Pref. Compare my first Essay, pp. 48-50.