Gobbet Essay ‘The propertied class and the class of the proletariat present the same human self-alienation. But the former class finds in this self alienation its confirmation and its good, its own power…the class of the proletariat feels annihilated in its self alienation, it sees in its own powerlessness…’ This extract is taken from Karl Marx, The Holy Family (1845). It was written at a time of upheaval in Karl Marx’s life. Just after …showed first 75 words of 1631 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1631 total…the other political, social, cultural, and moral structures of a society.’ ‘As a "science" of history, Marxism would succeed or fail to the extent that it could actually predict the evolution of production and its various effects.’ Lenin understood the validity of Marx’s theory as a scientific model…his interpretation maybe left to debate, but he saw it for what it was a scientific model to chart the past and hope for the future.