‘scientific essays revolutionising a science can never be really popular. But once the scientific basis is set out, the popularisation is easy. If times become more stormy then one can again select the colours and inks which would make up a popular presentation of these subjects. However, I never expected the German academic experts to ignore my work so completely, even if only for decency’s sake. Apart from this, I have also had the not very friendly experience of having party sympathisers in Germany, who had long busied themselves with this science and who had written overdone paeons of praise to me privately concerning Part 1, (Marx is referring to his work ‘A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’ – SM) not making the slightest effort to write a critique or even a summary of contents in magazines which they can use. If this is party criticism, then I confess that the secret of it is quite mysterious to me……………’
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