We Always Plan Too Much And Always

It Is However Always Important To Remember That The Ability To See Things In Their Correct Perspective May Be, And Often Is, Divorced From The Ability To Reason Correctly And Vice Versa. That Is Why A Man May Be A Very Good Theorist And Yet Talk Absolute Nonsense.

To The Believer Marxism Presents, First, A System Of Ultimate Ends That Embody The Meaning Of Life And Are Absolute Standards By Which To Judge Events And Actions.

The Spirit Of A People, Its Cultural Level, Its Social Structure, The Deeds Its Policy May Prepare—all This And More Is Written In Its Fiscal History, Stripped Of All Phrases. He Who Knows How To Listen To Its Message Here Discerns The Thunder Of World History More Clearly Than Anywhere Else.

The State Has Been Living On A Revenue Which Was Being Produced In The Private Sphere For Private Purposes And Had To Be Deflected From These Purposes By Political Force. The Theory That Construes Taxes On The Analogy Of Club Dues Or Of The Purchase Of The Services Of, Say, A Doctor Only Proves How Far Removed This Part Of The Social Sciences Is From Scientific Habits Of Mind.

Nothing Is So Retentive As A Nation's Memory.