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“Marx, as a philosopher-scientist (in the first place a scientist is a man of very great integrity) did his thinking at the time when the leading physicist was Dalton. Dalton was then at the mental stage of the interpretation of the experimental phenomena where he thought they really had found the smallest thing, the atom. There was no nucleus, just atoms. They were not broken up into protons or anything else. It was just atoms and they thought they actually had found what Democritus had talked about. It was invisible, below sight, but there it was. … Marx then as a philosopher of the highest integrity dealing with the latest information of the physicists, was convinced that there really was a hard core thing. He was convinced that the strong armed man was always going to get ahold of the hard things and that the people were going to suffer. There was no question about his conviction. I am convinced that if Marx were alive today he would be excited about the discovery that there is no small last thing. There is nothing that the tough man can get ahold of.”
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- Oregon Lecture #4, p. 123. 6 Jul’62
