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whats jarring here isn't just Engel's German Chauvinism, but that he seems to believe in a kind of racial heirarchy which he seems to justify using historical materialism,, where more developed nations are more civilized etc., less developed--inferior, economic development and imperialist conquest both serving the interests of civilization. apparently he subscribed to eugenics and all that... not surprising for a 19th century German factory owner.
But as Engels point out him and Marx stood " in opposition to their best friends, the English and French democrats." In their hatred of Slavs and defense of the civilizing virtues of German expansionism. So even for the time this position was bass ackwards.

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