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are these cuffs 
the sons and daughters 
of
 bruno bauer
         and his berliners ....?




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der jungen herr marx:



In his critical Berlin Literatur-Zeitung,

" Bruno Bauer, my friend of many years standing 
— but now rather estranged — 
has provided fresh proof
 of how difficult it is for Germans 
to extricate themselves 
from  one-sidedness." 




"The character of his writings 
can be reduced ced to the following:
 “Criticism” is transformed 
into a transcendental being.
 These Berliners do not regard themselves
 as men who criticise,
 but as critics who, incidentally,
 have the misfortune of being men. 

"They therefore acknowledge
 only one real need,
 the need of theoretical criticism.
their opponents  are therefore accused 
of having made some “practical” “need” 
their point of departure."

" This criticism therefore lapses 
into a sad and supercilious intellectualism"

" Consciousness or self-consciousness 
is regarded as the only human quality.
 Love, for example, is rejected, 
because the loved one
 is only an “object”."

" Down with the object."

" This criticism thus regards itself 
as the only active element in history.
 It is confronted 
by the whole of humanity as a mass,
 an inert mass,
 which has value 
only as the antithesis of intellect
. It is therefore regarded 
as the greatest crime 
if the critic displays
 feeling or passion,
 he must be an ironical ice-cold Sage "

"Thus Bauer says literally:

“The critic should participate
 neither in the sufferings
 nor in the joys of society;
 he should know 
neither friendship and love,
 nor hate and envy;
 he should be enthroned in a solitude,
 where only the laughter 
of the Olympian Gods
 over the topsy-turviness 
of the world resounds occasionally from his lips.”

"The tone of Bauer's Literatur-Zeitung 
is therefore one of dispassionate contempt 
and he makes it all the easier for himself
 by flinging the results  of our time as a whole
 at other people's heads."

" He only exposes contradictions
 and, satisfied with this occupation,
 he departs with a contemptuous “Hm”.
 He declares that criticism 
does not give anything,
 it is far too spiritual for that.
 Indeed, he plainly expresses the hope:

“the time is not distant 
when the whole of degenerate mankind 
will rally against criticism”
 — and criticism means Bauer and company —
 “they will then sort out this mass
 into different groups 
and distribute
 the testimonium paupertatis to all of them”.

"It seems that Bauer has fought against Christ
 out of rivalry."