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Article: MARX THE MONSTER; More than 150m have been slaughtered in his name. His genocidal disciples include Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot - and even Mugabe. So why has Karl Marx just been voted the greatest philosopher ever?
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2005
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HIS ideas justified the slaughter of more people than any other philosophy since time began.
His creed of 'equality and freedom' became a fanatical religion that ruled half the world and enslaved hundreds of millions.
Under his name, oppression, torture, starvation and genocide became the routine practices of brutal governments all over the world.
Yet yesterday, Karl Marx, founder of communism-progenitor of socialism and hater of the capitalist bourgeois classes, was announced the greatest philosopher of all time in a BBC Radio 4 poll.
How can it be that a man in whose name despots have justified grotesque levels of barbarism is hailed ...