“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice-- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)”
Karl Marx
Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
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