My criticism of Marx’s theory of the classes, as far as its historicist emphasis goes, follows the lines taken up in the last chapter. The formula ‘all history is a history of class struggle’ is very valuable as a suggestion that we should look into the important part played by class struggle in power politics as well as in other developments; this suggestion is the more valuable since Plato’s brilliant analysis of the part played by class struggle in the history of Greek city states was only rarely taken up in later times. But again, we must not, of course, take Marx’s word ‘all’ too
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