Wednesday, August 10, 2011

I wonder how he feels about Afghanistan!

Frustrated with the Union army's early lack of impetus, Engels wrote to Marx in 1862 that he could not "work up any enthusiasm for a people which on such a colossal issue allows itself to be continuously beaten by a fourth of its own population." (Source, p. 274)

Hmph.

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