Karl Marx’s sentences or statements about past, present and future

The sentences written or statements made by Karl Marx may be classified in various ways. For instance, one can classify them as those about [1] the past, [2] the present and, [3] the future.

1. His sentences about the past can be either true or false, depending upon the truth or falsity of his sources of information about the past.

2. The same holds good about his sentences about the present, that is, about his own time; depending upon the truth or falsity of his source of information, these too can be either true or false.

3. His sentences about the future, however, are either possible or probable. They are not deterministically determinable as either true or false.

All of them, however, could be both incomplete and inconsistent, from some point of view or the other. That makes them open ended and, therein one finds the importance and beauty of Karl Marx’s vast output, contained in the 114 volumes of the sections I-IV of the MEGA:

<http://www.bbaw.de/bbaw/Forschung/Forschungsprojekte/mega/en/Startseite>

Pradip Baksi

3 January 2013