AtD translation: "trains of history" and "multiples"

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 14:43:48 UTC 2021


I couldn't find the phrase in the German edition either, and the only
reference turned up by google is a single paper on political economy,
without stating where exactly the saying came from.


On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 2:49 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could do both, deny and confirm: Marx talks about »Schnellzuege der
> Geschichte« what could be translated as "fast trains of history" but he
> doesn't call wars that but revolutions, similar to that quote you found in
> the Class Struggles.
>
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