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Article: Karl Marx: The prophet of capitalism.(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 25, 1999
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LIKE most professional writers, Karl Marx worked best up against a deadline. The "Manifesto of the Communist Party" was written in a few days of round-the-clock creative inspiration in Brussels in January 1848. This intensive, adrenalin-fuelled, intellectual focus produced what was to become the world's best-selling political pamphlet.
The comrades of the Communist League back in London had imposed the deadline the previous December, after a ten-day brainstorming session in a room above a pub, the Red Lion in Soho. Marx was charged with getting their new-year resolutions down on paper. He missed January 1st, but, with input--though none of the ...