Fragment from the Article Series “The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution”

5) in a word, vulgar, even these unlovely features made him the characteristic type of the class he represents and thereby lent him a peculiar charm for the disinterested observer of Prussian-bourgeois natural history.

Let us pass from the programme to the execution of the programme, etc.⁵ and let us not forget that the Hansemann ministry marks the epoch in which the upstart German philistine strives to play the English or French bourgeois.

Hansemann, characteristic of his ministry...