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The Communist in Germany has rubber truncheons and concentration camps to fear, but he has comrades; the Communist here has nothing to fear and has none. In Germany people say: Marx is a power, so we will put you in a concentration camp. The Communists drew new strength from this recognition of their power, proudly feeling themselves to be truly oppressed. But here Marx is an old economist whom Jevons already refuted