Marx sometimes struck an internationalist pose - it was just another one of his frauds on the public. Marx, "British Politics" (April 7, 1853), Collected Works, Vol. 112, p.7: " . . . The real point at issue always is, Turkey in Europe -  the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate of different races and nationalities, of which it is hard to say which is the least fit for progress and civilization. . . . " http://marxwords.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_marxwords_archive.html Reposted in the interests of post-national-socialist harmony