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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.
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That his science of economy and society is so powerful
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that it allows him to foresee the future.
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Not to foresee the exact
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dates and details of future history,
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but that the broad outlines are beyond human control.
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There are actually two assertions here.