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Karl Marx: A Life
Title: Karl Marx: A Life
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2096 | Pages: 8.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Karl Marx: A Life
Karl Marx: A Life. Francis Wheen. New York: Norton, 1999. 431pp
There were only 11 mourners at Karl Marx’s funeral in Highgate cemetery on March 17th 1883, but within a hundred years of his death governments that professed Marxism as their guiding faith ruled half the world’s population. “Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion – or so been so calamitously misinterpreted.”(p.1) It is easy to forget that Marx was also …showed first 75 words of 2096 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2096 total…his ideas than any other aspect of his life. Francis Wheen's fresh, lively and moving biography of Marx considers the whole man: brain, body, and beard. This is a very readable, humorous and sympathetic account of the life of Karl Marx. Yes, it is good to remind people that the class struggle still exists, but then you only have to take a look at what is going on in the current world to see that.
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