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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: bourgeois looks at a suspicious foreigner. They ask "Do you
believe that Marx was omniscient and infallible; that Engels was
his prophet; that Bebel and Singer are his inspired apostles; and
that Das Kapital is the Bible?" Hastening in my innocence to
clear myself of what I regard as an accusation of credulity and
ignorance, I assure them earnestly that I know ten times as much
of economics and a hundred times as much of practical
administration as Marx did; that I knew Engels personally and
rather liked him as a witty and amiable old 1848 veteran who
despised modern Socialism; that I regard Bebel and Singer as men
of like passions with myself, but considerably less advanced; and
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