b russell marx and politics..

 "Marx held that politics is determined by economics, but that was because he was still under the influence of eighteenth-century rationalism, and imagined that what people most desire is to grow rich. Experience since his time has shown that there is something which people desire even more strongly, and that is to keep others poor."

— Bertrand Russell, The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell(1961), Part: XVII, The Analyst of International Affairs, 75. World Government, p. 683…

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