today we identify Marx

今天当我们定义马克思时
as certainly one of the great theorists

毋庸置疑他是一位伟大的理论家
who created the idea of class.

他一手缔造了阶级思想
The other one is, by the way, Max Weber.

顺便一提另一位是马克斯·韦伯
What is also interesting about both of them,

很有意思的一点是
that they never wrote any coherent analysis what class is.

他们都未曾详细地分析过何谓阶级
Well in The Communist Manifesto,

在《共产党宣言》中
Marx and Engels write a fair deal about class,

马克思与恩格斯恰如其分地论述了阶级
but they don't have the conceptual apparatus yet really to do it right.

但他们当时连阶级概念的要领都不得而知
And by the time he has, after he finished the first volume of Kapital,

直到他完成《资本论》第一卷后他才知道
he actually makes an attempt,

他确实尝试过
what eventually was published by Engels

在最终由恩格斯发表的