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That is to say, whatever, look around.
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But the point is that the revolutionary
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transformation of the means of production,
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and of what is produced and at what cost it sells,
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is very much on Marx's mind.
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Additionally, Europe is politically unstable in the 1840s.
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And there are five or six nodes of apparent revolutionary activity
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stretching from Austria through Germany,
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into tsarist Russia.
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And Marx imagines that his relatively
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abstract analysis of capitalism is scientific.
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By scientific he means that it has predictive force.