The demand " that rent should be handed over to the state to serve in place of taxes , " marx explained , " is a frank expression of the hatred the industrial capitalist bears towards the landed proprietor , who seems to him a useless thing , an excrescence upon the general body of bourgeois production . "
His face red , the veteran revolutionary who had insisted on quasi-dictatorial control of his own movement against the qing said he was not going to be reduced to ' some kind of holy excrescence while the great plans for the revolution are ruined ' .