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"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths."
-- Karl Marx
Marx's birthday was on Saturday, May 5th. I did not have it marked on my calender and somehow overlooked it. He really shouldn't be forgotten, as his thoroughgoing critique of capitalism certainly helped to shape our liberal democracies, making them more responsive to the needs and aspirations of the common people. As for his unwittingly providing some of the intellectual groundwork for the worst totalitarianisms that we have known, well, we cannot be entirely responsible for what our children do when they grow up.
-- Karl Marx
Marx's birthday was on Saturday, May 5th. I did not have it marked on my calender and somehow overlooked it. He really shouldn't be forgotten, as his thoroughgoing critique of capitalism certainly helped to shape our liberal democracies, making them more responsive to the needs and aspirations of the common people. As for his unwittingly providing some of the intellectual groundwork for the worst totalitarianisms that we have known, well, we cannot be entirely responsible for what our children do when they grow up.
