Quotes from Franz Mehring

So humanity is not the helpless plaything of a dead mechanism, but its development consists precisely in the growing power of the human mind over the dead mechanism of nature. But - and this is only said by historical materialism - the human spirit develops from, with and out of the material mode of production. The human mind is not the father of the mode of production, but the mode of production is the mother of the human mind.

Una grande epoca storica non muore mai tanto rapidamente quanto i suoi tendono a sperare e forse anche devono sperare per poterla colpire con il dovuto rigore.