9k:RD/ Our task is to interpret it (Q39,91)

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Our task is to interpret it
/ Philosophers have tried to change the world; our job is to interpret it / Philosophers have only tried to change the world in various ways; our task is to interpret it -> my pet peeve and the absolute heart of most of the E-S tradition

practical-political socialism
/ it is, in essence, a matter of indifference whether the etatisation of all means of production is accepted or rejected as an ultimate aim ... in respect of practical-political socialism, which prefers immediate aims to the distant ones (Schultze-Gävernitz) [1] / realpolitik (generic) ->

sometimes I begin to feel like blue Gramscianism started at Menshevism and there has been an unbroken line from then to now. or even that maybe some of it pre-dates Marx.
something very interesting about this is that if you remove the word "socialism" this sentence almost makes sense as a simple description of Liberal-republicanism. it's tossing the word "socialism" in there that causes the problems. ...wait hang on. let me change this from "S1" to "F1". that is so much better.