Abstract
THIS is the most admirable expose of the fallacies of the materialist conception of history that I have ever come across. The author, who is a Viennese in exile, has taken the trouble to go through the fifteen propositions in the introduction to Marx's “Criticism of Political Philosophy” written in London in 1859 and other Marxist writings, and tried to sift out any grains of truth there may be in them. Dr. Federn is a historian apparently familiar with both ancient and modern times, and he writes with impartiality and in a clear and very attractive style. The style indeed is so good that one wonders that any foreigner should have been capable of writing it. But, as no name of a translator is given, one supposes that the author is as perfect a linguist as he is undoubtedly a wide and accomplished historian. The Materialist Conception of History A Critical Analysis. By Karl Federn. Pp. xiv + 263. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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