Karl Marx

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  July 27, 2019
  

  You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln.

  Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx were friendly and deeply connected. 

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• SOURCE: France 24
  5-6-18
  

  Controversial statue of Marx unveiled in his German birthplace

  Protesters held banners reading “Down with capitalism” and “Father of all dictators” at the unveiling of a statue of Karl Marx in the German city of Trier, reflecting the polarising legacy of the philosopher in his birthplace and beyond.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  5-3-18
  

  Marx’s Apologists Should Be Red in the Face

  by Paul Kengor

  The bicentennial of the man whose ideas killed untold millions.

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• SOURCE: DW
  5-4-18
  

  Karl Marx a tool to 'win the future' for China, Xi Jinping says

  The Chinese president has praised Karl Marx as the "greatest thinker of modern times" ahead of the bicentennial of the German philosopher. Xi's German counterpart, meanwhile, was far more critical.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-30-14
  

  Claiming a Copyright on Marx? How Uncomradely

  “I would think Marx would want the most prolific and free distribution of his ideas possible — he wasn’t in it for the money.”

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• SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
  10-14-13
  

  A Generation of Intellectuals Shaped by 2008 Crash Rescues Marx From History’s Dustbin

  by Michelle Goldberg

  For those too young to remember the Cold War but old enough to be trapped by the Great Recession, Marxism holds new appeal.

• SOURCE: Kansas City Star
  7-20-13
  

  Jonathan Sperber: Don't underestimate reach of "The Daily Show"

  Don’t underestimate the reach of “The Daily Show.”After Jonathan Sperber, a University of Missouri history professor, appeared on the show in April to discuss “Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life,” his biography of the German philosopher and revolutionary, he heard from several old friends. “That included the girl I had a crush on in 1966,” Sperber said recently....

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-31-13
  

  Jonathan Freedland: Review of Jonathan Sperber's "Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life"

  Jonathan Freedland is an editorial page columnist for The Guardian of London.The Karl Marx depicted in Jonathan Sperber’s absorbing, meticulously researched biography will be unnervingly familiar to anyone who has had even the most fleeting acquaintance with radical politics. Here is a man never more passionate than when attacking his own side, saddled with perennial money problems and still reliant on his parents for cash, constantly plotting new, world-changing ventures yet having trouble with both deadlines and personal hygiene, living in rooms that some might call bohemian, others plain “slummy,” and who can be maddeningly inconsistent when not lapsing into elaborate flights of theory and unintelligible abstraction.