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It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the

German petty Philistine to be the typical man. To every

villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher,

Socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real

character. It went to the extreme length of directly opposing the

"brutally destructive" tendency of Communism, and of proclaiming

its supreme and impartial contempt of all class struggles. With

very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist

publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the

domain of this foul and enervating literature.

2. CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM

A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social

grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of

bourgeois society.