Sunday, April 17, 2011

Terry Eagleton is right...

In Praise of Marx - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

In Praise of Marx - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "April 10, 2011
In Praise of Marx

By Terry Eagleton

Praising Karl Marx might seem as perverse as putting in a good word for the Boston Strangler. Were not Marx's ideas responsible for despotism, mass murder, labor camps, economic catastrophe, and the loss of liberty for millions of men and women? Was not one of his devoted disciples a paranoid Georgian peasant by the name of Stalin, and another a brutal Chinese dictator who may well have had the blood of some 30 million of his people on his hands?

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