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The Eastern Question: A Reprint of Letters written 1853 –1856 dealing with the events of the Crimean War, edit., Eleanor Marx Aveling, London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. (1897) p. 90 https://books.google.com/books?id=D75MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=Marx+%22by+quarrelling+amongst+themselves,+instead+of+confederating,+Germans+and+Scandinavians,+%22&source=bl&ots=uC9gdDzTYy&sig=ACfU3U3Lt7WXkyrxUD8hF5u5WXMdFikUEA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTqrOylMbgAhXS31QKHdQECVcQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Marx%20%22by%20quarrelling%20amongst%20themselves%2C%20instead%20of%20confederating%2C%20Germans%20and%20Scandinavians%2C%20%22&f=true
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[B]y quarrelling amongst themselves, instead of confederating, Germans and Scandinavians, both of them belonging to the same great race, only prepare the way for their hereditary enemy, the Slav.

— Karl Marx

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[B]y quarrelling amongst themselves, instead of confederating, Germans and Scandinavians, both of them belonging to the same great race, only prepare the way for their hereditary enemy, the Slav." in the context of "The Eastern Question: A Reprint of Letters written 1853 –1856 dealing with the events of the Crimean War, edit., Eleanor Marx Aveling, London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. (1897) p. 90 https://books.google.com/books?id=D75MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=Marx+%22by+quarrelling+amongst+themselves,+instead+of+confederating,+Germans+and+Scandinavians,+%22&source=bl&ots=uC9gdDzTYy&sig=ACfU3U3Lt7WXkyrxUD8hF5u5WXMdFikUEA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTqrOylMbgAhXS31QKHdQECVcQ6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=Marx%20%22by%20quarrelling%20amongst%20themselves%2C%20instead%20of%20confederating%2C%20Germans%20and%20Scandinavians%2C%20%22&f=true" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Karl Marx" (Quotes: Sorted chronologically) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Karl Marx

About Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German political philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for labor theory of value, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published many works during his lifetime, including The Communist Manifesto (1848) and the first volume of Das Kapital (1867), the two later volumes being completed by his collaborator Friedrich Engels.