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Title: Extract from the «Saturday Review» of 18 January 1868
Description: Engels copies the passage on Marx and «Capital» from the review «German Literature» in the London «Saturday Review».
Author: Friedrich Engels
Date: 1868-01
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1868%20Extract%20from%20the%20Saturday%20Review%20of%2018%20January%201868
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*Manuscript by Friedrich Engels (1868), kept at the IISG (Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Papers, inv. J 12, image 2, one page), transcribed from the digital facsimile by the Escuela de marxismo, 2026 (two independent readings and arbitration on the image); one uncertain reading, marked [?] and explained in a note. Attribution and grouping after MEGA² (IV/18), which puts this extract together with two others (from the «Deutsche Eisenbahn-Statistik für Betriebsjahr 1864» and from the «Moskovskie Vedomosti» of 23 March 1867); those are on other sheets (inv. J 9 and H 14) and are not included here. Diplomatic transcription: spelling, abbreviations and punctuation of the manuscript. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1868%20Extracto%20de%20la%20Saturday%20Review%20del%2018%20de%20enero%20de%201868)*

Sat. Rev. 18/1/68. „German Literature."

18.[^1] Herr Marx is a polit. econ^st^. of the most advanced democr^c^. School. In his eyes the capitalist is the enemy of the human Species & the wealth of the individ^l^. involves the misery of the mass. These opinions are obtaining some currency in certain orders of society, & as it is therefore desirable that they sh^d^. be thoroughly studied & comprehended, Herr M.'s work may repay attent^n[?]^.[^2] The author's views may be as pernicious as we Conceive them to be, but there can be no question as to the plausibility of his logic, the vigour of his rhetoric, & the charm with which he invests the driest problems of Pol. ec^y^. His facts & illustrations, moreover, are chiefly derived from the social circumst^s^. of Engl^d^ where he appears to have resided for some years —

[^1]: In the left margin, level with the second line, in a thick grey stroke (pencil?), unlike the ink of the text.

[^2]: Uncertain reading: after «attent» there is a small, thick raised blot of ink above a full stop; it may be a raised «n» (attent^n^.) or merely ink at the end of the cross-stroke of the «t» (attent:).