Quote Originally Posted by Feedback View Post
You are misinformed.

The English language refers to the land as German and Germany from the Latin germania. In German "deutsche" has etymology in the teutonic knights, which stems from proto german for "people"...rather than deutsche being German language for German.

So whilst german may be used in the English language, these are not terms used by those speaking any of the varieties of the sprachraum.
So was the Young Germany movement (active from 1830-1850, Marx described them as the Young Germans) not about the political future of the German states? Was the tract published by Marx and Engels on German Ideology in 1846 something to do with 'the people' of central Europe and not about the states, ideologies and social organisation of the German states? You insisted that Marx was a Prussian (who became stateless) not a German. It is clear from his own writings that he considered himself to be a German.