Volume 47, Number 18 · November 16, 2000
What's Left of Marx?
By Robert Skidelsky
Karl Marx: A Life
by Francis Wheen
Norton, 431 pp., $27.95
When Karl Marx was twenty-four, a contemporary wrote of him: 'Imagine Rousseau, Voltaire, Holbach, Lessing, Heine and Hegel fused into one person…and you have Dr. Marx.' Marx was not one of those brilliant young men who fail to live up to their promise. He produced the most powerful, coherent, and influential secular system of ideas ever devised to explain man's past, analyze his present, and predict his future.
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