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

[Mark Kohut]

I could find a famous quote per Jochen: Revolutions are the locomotives of
history. It is in the Preface to Das Kapital evidently.


On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:44 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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