Totalitarian temptation that lurks in Marx’s false theories

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.

Totalitarian temptation that lurks in Marx’s false theories

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.

The bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth has occasioned a surge of interest in the man’s work, complete with the unveiling of a statue in his hometown of Trier, Germany.

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