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Marx would have reacted to the latter strategy by
looking at his remarks on
the program of the German
Worker's Party, a party that
cited Marx as its intellectual godfather. Marx saw
that their program, known
as the Gotha program, was,
in fact, a surrender of the
ugly to the beautiful revolution. For all its rhetorical
militancy, Marx saw that it
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alla misunderstanding of
the worker's position in capitalism, and veiled its shortcomings with universalistic
platitudes. Marx's glosses on
the text were scathingand
were, consequently, hushed
up. Even after Marx died,
Engels found many difficulties in publishing the piece.
As Marx saw it, the Gotha
program had moved communism backwards: back to
a theory about distribution.
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