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the Legion of Honor was all about.
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Making money was part of it.
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Of course, it was always in the nineteenth century
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sort of classic to poke fun at bourgeois culture,
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and in some cases the lack of it,
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and to ascribe to the middle classes philistine habits
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in which making money was really the only thing that counted.
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Certainly, Friedrich Engels, Marx's socialist partner--
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obsessed, as well he should have been,
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with the slums of the satanic mills of Manchester--
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he once wrote the following.
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He says, "One day I walked with one of these middle class gentlemen