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To such people it happens , for instance , that they cannot distinguish the indisputable merit of Spencer , namely that of having contributed to the formulation of a general philosophy , from his incapacity to explain a single historical fact by means of his wholly diagrammatic sociology . In general it is true that the phenomenology , or psychology , of religion , whatever you wish to call it , presents great difficulties and carries within itself rather obscure points . But , I ask for the sake of greater clearness , how can a man , whose mind is still engrossed in such a narrow logic of first experimental cognition , undertake to grapple with the problem of Marxism , which stands above such vulgar distinctions , or , to be polite toward our adversaries , professes to stand above them ? This is a reprint of the 1793 edition . This process of transformation does not take place by the mere instrumentality of those internal motives of criticism and research which may be called theoretical . For example , J. C. Ewing in his bibliography of the Brash and Reid chapbook series mentions that there are three issues of Tam O'Shanter , but does not indicate how to distinguish them . And from this point , which no one can very well imagine to be a noisy affray , we shall have the beginning of that thing which many , with tiresome persistency , call the social revolution par excellence , I do n't know why , since the entire history is a series of social revolutions . Marx was not exactly a model of what one might call classic diction , especially so far as the plasticity , transparency , and continuity of his illustrations are concerned . But in the present case , Croce continued to plead that it was my duty , now that Socialism was spreading in Italy , to take part , in such a way and by such means as suited my inclinations , in the life of the party that was growing and gaining strength . It would be useful , perhaps , to distinguish between the generally accepted chapbook which contains a small number of pages , and the inexpensively produced larger work , destined for the same reading public and in some instances carried in the same pack — Graham 's History of the Rebellion , and early editions of Pilgrim 's Progress too . But if it is so easy to reduce historical materialism to powder , if class-struggles as a dynamic of history are but an erroneous generalization of ill-understood facts , if the expectations of facts , if the expectations of Communism are practically utopian , if the theories of Capital are so obviously false , and if all the fundaments of Marxism have now been destroyed , why does Masaryk take the pains to write another two hundred pages on rights , ethics , religion , and so forth , that is , on the systems which are called ideological ? Therefore , when African states introduce macroeconomic and sectoral policies aimed at reducing poverty , they must take care to ensure that none of the planned improvements in economic growth are at the expense of the environment . I will merely say in passing that the great uproar made curiously enough by the political press of Italy , whether daily or otherwise periodical , over the alleged death of Socialism on account of a socalled Crisis of Marxism appears to me as one more proof of that organic national vice which one might call the right to ignorance . Migliavacca , a Paris-based Italian pastry cook , writes that his four-year-old son is named in Garibaldi 's honour and exhorts the general to take up his sword in the cause of the liberation of Venice . This points up one of the major difficulties in dealing with chapbooks : only very rarely is a full bibliographical description of the work given , so that it may be impossible to distinguish whether or not copies in different libraries are identical .