Karl Marx on Edmund Burke
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“Burke...is held by every party in England as the paragon of British statesmen.”
“The sycophant — who in the pay of the English oligarchy played the romantic laudator temporis acti against the French Revolution just as, in the pay of the North American colonies at the beginning of the American troubles, he had played the liberal against the English oligarchy — was an out-and-out vulgar bourgeois.”