The pioneering political theorist’s warnings about the inequities of capitalism are still relevant and will not be erased by the defacing of his tomb, writes

It’s some years, maybe a generation, since the gently provocative goad — Why is America not socialist? — animated dinner parties of certain, well-choreographed, kaftan-wearing kind.

Two hundred years after Marx’s birth, it is certainly wise to reflect on his intellectual legacy but we should not do so in celebration, writes Carl Bildt.