--- title: "3 Hal Draper Quotes - Famous Writer" description: "American activist and author (1914-1990)... | Hal Draper was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, Ca..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-hal-draper-78572.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Hal Draper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-hal-draper-78572.jpg) # Hal Draper (1914–1990) Writer **3** quotes in **9** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Hal Draper was a writer. ## Quick Facts About Hal Draper Born September 19, 1914 Died January 26, 1990 Profession Writer ## About Hal Draper American activist and author (1914-1990)... \| Hal Draper was an American socialist activist and author who played a significant role in the Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement. He is known for his extensive scholarship on the history and meaning of the thought of Karl Marx and Marxian socialism. ## Quotes by Hal Draper > [“The broad use of state in Hegelese presents translation problems. Marx’s early formulations, in the Hegelian spirit, often come close to counterposing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-draper/the-broad-use-of-state-in-hegelese-presents-translation-problems-marx/) [Hal Draper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-draper/) [State Hegelese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/state-hegelese-1556190/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8e/hal-draper-78572_state-hegelese_the-broad-use-of-state-in-hegelese-prese_136845.jpg) > [Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-draper/only-by-fighting-for-democratic-power-do-workers-educate-themselves/) [Hal Draper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-draper/) [Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10f/hal-draper-78572_able_only-by-fighting-for-democratic-power-do_2559537.jpg) > [“More specific material relating to the bourgeois state will be found in subsequent volumes. This approach is of a piece with Marx’s.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hal-draper/more-specific-material-relating-to-the-bourgeois-state-will-be-found/) [Hal Draper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-draper/) [Good thing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-thing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/hal-draper-78572_good-thing_more-specific-material-relating-to-the-b_3068194.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hal-draper/#itemlist", "name": "Hal Draper Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The broad use of state in Hegelese presents translation problems. 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