What did he mean by this?

What did he mean by this?

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>..."Is there a single one of these races, not excluding the Czechs and Serbs, that possesses a national historical tradition which is kept alive among the people and stands above the pettiest local struggles?"

>...It is true that among the more educated Southern Slavs there was a small democratic party which, although not wanting to renounce its nationality, nevertheless desired to put it at the disposal of the struggle for freedom. This illusion, which succeeded in arousing sympathy also among West-European democrats, sympathy that was fully justified as long as the Slav democrats took part in the struggle against the common enemy — this illusion was shattered by the bombardment of Prague. After that event all the South-Slav races, following the example of the Croats, put themselves at the disposal of Austrian reaction...

Do you have a citation beyond a vaugely sourced /pol/ infograph? Because I looked up the article and I found nothing mentioning their extermination.

WDHMBT???

It was actually Engels, not Marx, and he mentions it in his article "The Magyar struggle" and he called the South Slavs and the Czechs racial trash that needs to perish in a revolution because they're reactionary races.

Marx said many things man, he was just a shitposter

South slavs were better at socialism than everyone else tho. Sad!

He wasn't talking about actual genocide/ethnic cleansing though, but "cultural" genocide. The idea being that those cultures were anti-revolutionary in the same way that religion was, and both needed to be removed from the people.

He literally used the term Völkerabfälle.

>reactionary races
Engels would be reactional too, if he had to see 30 different occupations

marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1849/01/13.htm

Is this not the article you were talking about?
Where in this article does it say that? I can't find any mention of anything which either of you have mentioned.

Yes that's the article.
>Such, in Austria, are the pan-Slavist Southern Slavs, who are nothing but the residual fragment of peoples, resulting from an extremely confused thousand years of development.
>That this residual fragment, which is likewise extremely confused, sees its salvation only in a reversal of the whole European movement, which in its view ought to go not from west to east, but from east to west, and that for it the instrument of liberation and the bond of unity is the Russian knout — that is the most natural thing in the world.
>These relics of a nation mercilessly trampled under foot in the course of history, as Hegel says, these residual fragments of peoples always become fanatical standard-bearers of counter-revolution and remain so until their complete extirpation or loss of their national character, just as their whole existence in general is itself a protest against a great historical revolution.
The "residual fragment" is a really, and I mean really shitty translation of Abfall/Abfälle which means "trash" in German. Probably the translator did so deliberately in order to change the message.

That seems like a big stretch. A poorly sourced infographic which got the author wrong and didn't provide a title is now relying on a "translation error"?

Seems far more likely that Marx was being himself. Criticizing the nationalistic tendencies of the 1848 revolutions and the Russian involvement in their suppression in the Austrian Empire. (Ie why above exists)

>That seems like a big stretch.
It isn't. Völkerabfälle literally means human trash/ethnic trash. Here's the original text: mlwerke.de/me/me06/me06_165.htm
>Marx was being himself
Engels wrote it, not Marx.

"Abfälle" is better translated as "scraps". Like "scraps" off of a plate you would give to a dog. It can mean trash, but given the context that seems unlikely.

A direct translation would be something like "The scraps of the former Soviet Union", which technically makes sense in English but it doesn't fit. You would be better off saying "fragments of", or rewording the sentence.

>wie Hegel sagt, unbarmherzig zertretenen Nation, diese Völkerabfälle werden jedesmal und bleiben bis zu ihrer gänzlichen Vertilgung oder Entnationalisierung die fanatischen Träger der Kontrerevolution, wie ihre ganze Existenz überhaupt schon ein Protest gegen eine große geschichtliche Revolution ist.

>as Hegel says, are the ravages of these nations, and remain, until their total destruction or denationalization, the fanatical bearers of the counter-revolution, as their whole existence is at all events a protest against a great historical revolution

Wow, once again shitty infographics fail us. What a fucking surprise.

I very much understand what the word means because my language (Czech) constructs the word for trash in the exact same fashion as German. It definitely means "human trash" in this context.

Wow, people in the nineteenth century were racist?
Better throw the baby out with the bathwater

racism ain't so bad, lighten up everyone.

your picture misrepresents the definition of selfish.
the "human nature" argument that most defenders of capitalism use refers to selfishness in a way that more closely aligns with "self-interest" than gluttony.

as in, if it's your personal interest to give to charity, you'll do it with or without gov't telling you to.

the only people so faithless as to damn the entirety of humanity for their inherent sin is, ironically, atheist commies.

slavs are trash

Cultural genocide is still genocide and was considered as such by the one who coined the term "genocide" in the first place (Raphael Lemkin).

>holodomorinfo.com

Surely there is no agenda or bias behind this post.

Those groups are shit though.

Spotted the (((bolsheviks)))

Using your definition of selfish wouldn't change the thrust of the pic's argument, though.
I'm pro-capitalism, but it's not because I think capitalism is great, it's just cause I think the alternatives are worse.

Prove me wrong. All those groups are "left-wing" nationalists. Which is ironic that the father of communism thought they were trash.

>left wing nationalists
Slavs? If being radically against gays, jews and muslims is left wing then sure.

Social conservatism doesn't change the fact these are leftist populations still heavily influenced by Communist theology.

lol abfälle is literally a more derogatory term for trash trash would be müll abfälle is worse than calling someone müll

this.

Estonians are hardcore atheist and they still hate gays. Social conservatism isn't the only barometer for the political spectrum. Also don't forget how easy it is for a society to change their social opinions. Bretons use to be a bastion of cultural conservatism a few deacdes ago and now they are a solid socialist block.

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Lmao how triggerd can somone be

So which one is it? This pic looks like the ones from /pol/ and they always post fake quotes there.

I've heard that Marx only had one job and Engels was ghostwriting for him before he learned English.