Monica Das Gupta ( 2005 ) observes that, in late 1980s to early 1990s China, there was no evidence of selective abortion of female fetuses among firstborn children, or in families with one or more existing sons ( in fact, families with multiple sons were, if anything, more likely to abort a boy than a girl ).

Similar to Lenin's use of it, left communists, coming from the Communist International themselves started in fact with a theory of decadence in the first place, yet the communist left sees the theory of decadence at the heart of Marx's method as well, expressed in famous works such as The Communist Manifesto, Grundrisse, Das Kapital but most significantly in Preface to the Critique of Political Economy.

In fact, when Marx first introduces the concept of surplus value in Das Kapital, chapter 4, it is in the context of an analysis of " buying commodities in order to sell them at a profit ", which he denotes as M-C-M ' ( see: Capital Vol.

Despite the lack of documentary evidence, and the lack of contemporary reference, other authors have repeated Bush's assertion that Alfred and Mabel married, including John van der Kiste and Bee Jordaan in Dearest Affie, and the assertion is repeated as fact in the official family history ( Das Haus von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ).

In fact he completed the draft of volume 3 of Das Kapital, before he published volume 1.

In fact, Marx devotes a great amount of attention in Das Kapital to explaining why economic relations appear in human consciousness in the way that they do, and why they might appear in a different way than they really are.

This along with the fact that Sheoraphuli was a collecting centre for local marketable goods produced in different parts of Hughli, induced many families-the Barujibis, Duttas, Deys, Das etc.

This was, in fact, Swiss Reformed theologian, Karl Barth's, understanding of the doctrine of election.

Philosopher of science Karl Popper, in his Conjectures and Refutations, critiqued such claims of the explanatory power or valid application of historical materialism by arguing that it could explain or explain away any fact brought before it, making it unfalsifiable.

The ideology was Marxism-Leninism ; this reflected the fact that Stalin himself was not a Communist theoretician, in contrast to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and that he prided himself on maintaining the legacy of Lenin as a founding father for the Soviet Union and the future Communist world.

For example, Karl Grebe said: " his life doesn't tell anything about his work, and his work doesn't tell anything about his life, that's the uncomfortable fact any biography must start from.

In a contrasting report, historian Richard Kurin speculated that the " theft " of the French Crown Jewels was in fact engineered by the revolutionary leader Georges Danton as part of a plan to bribe an opposing military commander, Duke Karl Wilhelm of Brunswick.

In the various neo-Hegelian schools-proposing a history of our species some consider to be at variance with Darwin, as well as with the dialectical materialism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and with what is now called analytic philosophy — the point of departure is not so much formal logic and scientific fact but ' identity '.

According to Karl Kerenyi and other scholars, the second Asterion, the star at the center of the labyrinth on Cretan coins, was in fact the Minotaur, as the compiler of Bibliotheca ( III. 1. 4 ) asserts: Pasiphaë gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur.

Karl Simrock created an übertragung ( literally " transcription ", but in fact a re-writing ) in 1833 that is still available from Insel Verlag.

Although Sorge considered Friedrich Adolf Sorge, an associate of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to be his grandfather, he was in fact his great-uncle.

Karl von Staudt showed that algebraic axioms, such as commutativity and associativity of addition and multiplication, were in fact consequences of incidence of lines in geometric configurations.

" Drais ' undoing had been the fact that he had publicly renounced his noble title in 1848, and adopted the name " Citizen Karl Drais " as a tribute to the French Revolution.

In their view, the different fields of Marxist thought have little in common with each other beyond the fact that they were initially proposed by the same person ( Karl Marx ).

At that time Rebane asked if the rumours held any truth and he was then formally notified that he had been in fact given the award and promoted by the then-Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz at the war's end.

Karl was the perfect wingman-not looking to score strongly himself, but instead protecting and covering his flight leader, thus allowing Nowotny to become one of the greatest of the Luftwaffe pilots-a fact that Walter was always quick to point out, and their stories are inextricably intertwined.

When in France during World War I, members of Yale University had learned about the German song Die Wacht am Rhein and were apparently shocked to discover the fact that Yale's traditional song " Bright College Years " had been written to the " splendid tune " of Karl Wilhelm.

Karl Reinhardt argues that this is contrary to what Patroclus really originally wanted – in fact, he is only there to receive information on behalf of Achilles about the wounded Machaon.

It was, in fact, a Gamma-Gerät howitzer, assembled at Meppen after World War I from parts scavenged by Krupp, and it went on to see action in World War II, along with the modern and even larger Mörser Karl and Schwerer Gustav.

In 1989, Marvin E. Thomas in Karl Theodor and the Bavarian Succession, 1777 – 1778 argued that in fact Charles Theodore wanted to maintain possession of his new territory, and that this is shown in his diplomatic correspondence.

The Japanese win in the " Great Final " the World Youth Championship, defeating Brazil 3-2 after extra time with Tsubasa scoring a hat-trick and the golden goal despite the fact that Brazil used a new player at the extra time called Natureza, who became the third person to score a goal on Wakabayashi from outside the goal area-the first being Karl Heinz Schneider of Germany, and second being Sho Shunko of China.

Old Shatterhand is the alter ego of Karl May, and May himself maintained that he experienced all the adventures in person, even though in fact he did not visit America until after he wrote most of his well-known Western stories, and never traveled west of Buffalo, NY.

Its name is Greek for " first born " and was chosen by Karl L. Littrow in allusion to the fact that this was the first asteroid discovered by an astronomer who was already known for work in other fields of astronomy.

One of his contributions to the magazine singles him out as a radical liberal: Despre starea socială a muncitorilor plugari în Principatele Române în deosebite timpuri (" On the Social Status of the Ploughmen of the Romanian Principalities at Various Times ") argues for a land reform, aimed at dispossessing the boyars of large plots of land ( that would in turn be awarded to landless peasants ); it was used as reference by Karl Marx in his succinct analysis of the events, a fact which was to earn Bălcescu credentials in Communist Romania.

While at Manchester, he was a member of the 1975 University Challenge team that lost in the first round after answering most questions with the name of a revolutionary (" Trotsky ", " Lenin ", " Karl Marx " or " Che Guevara "); the team's tactics were a protest against the fact that the Oxford and Cambridge universities can enter each of their colleges in the contest as a separate team, even though the individual colleges are not universities in themselves.

In fact, as his biographer Ellen Knight has established, he was German — indeed a Prussian, and a Berliner on both sides of his family, born Martin Karl Löffler in Schöneberg near Berlin.

Marx then extended this premise by asserting the importance of the fact that, in order to carry out production and exchange, people have to enter into very definite social relations, most fundamentally " production relations ".

Marx thus departs from Hegel by insisting that " the fact that man is a corporeal, actual, sentient, objective being with natural capacities means that he has actual, sensuous objects for his nature as objects of his life-expression, or that he can only express his life in actual sensuous objects.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

In fact, radio and TV news recordings of his voice can be found on the Internet, documentaries, and on bonus materials of Marx Brothers DVDs.

In fact, Marx argues that the whole purpose of production in this situation becomes the growth of capital, i. e. that production of output becomes conditional on capital accumulation.

It underscores the fact that for Marx, communism is not an ideal to be achieved but a " real movement " born from the old society with a set of programmatic tasks.

Marx acknowledges that commodities being traded also have a general utility, implied by the fact that people want them, but he argues that this by itself tells us nothing about the specific character of the economy in which they are produced and sold.

Their social characteristics are therefore to a large extent an objectively given fact, stamped on them from birth and affirmed by socialization processes ; and, according to Marx, in producing and reproducing their material life, people must necessarily enter into relations of production which are " independent of their will ".

If this claim ( which Marx originally intended as a criticism of German Idealism and the more moderate Young Hegelians ) is still more or less the case in the 21st century, as many Marxists would claim, then Marxist theory is in fact the practical continuation of the philosophical tradition, while much of philosophy is still politically irrelevant.

But Marx also criticized Feuerbach for being insufficiently materialistic, as Stirner himself had pointed out, and explained that the alienation described by the Young Hegelians was in fact the result of the structure of the economy itself.

These sprawling, voluminous notebooks that Marx put together for his research on political economy, particularly those materials associated with the study of " primitive communism " and pre-capitalist communal production, in fact, show a more radical turning " Hegel on his head " than heretofore acknowledged by most mainstream Marxists and Marxiologists.

The main reason he sees the fact that the Soviet Union at the time of the October Revolution was far from the stage of development, which Marx had assumed in his theory.

Like Marx, Dahrendorf agreed that conflict is still a basic fact of social life.

According to Marx, human development is characterized by the fact that in the process of meeting their needs, humans develop new needs, implying that at least to some extent they make and remake their own nature.

The convention was in fact invented ( independently ) by Jack Marx and by Stayman's regular partner, George Rapée.

Marx acknowledges that commodities being traded also have a general utility, implied by the fact that people want them, but he argues that this by itself tells us nothing about the specific character of the economy in which they are produced and sold.

The fact is that Marx himself, in the introduction to his Grundrisse manuscript, had defined the economic sphere as the totality of production, circulation, distribution and consumption.

In fact Marx suggests that the original or primitive accumulation of capital often occurs through violence, plunder, slavery, robbery, extortion and theft.