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Article: KARL MARX: A LIFE.(Review) (book review)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 7, 2000
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New biographies of renowned communists -- one of Karl Marx, the other of William Z. Foster -- attempt to humanize the men who thought they could revolutionize the world.
Only 11 people came to Karl Marx's funeral in London in 1883, hardly a number that would indicate the enormous influence the man's thought exerted almost everywhere in the 20th century. In 1961, by contrast, a thousand folks gathered for a memorial service at Carnegie Hall in New York City after the American Communist leader William Z. Foster died in a sanitarium in Russia. Many more attended the solemn state funeral in Moscow's Red Square for the man Soviet newspapers regarded as "the leading ...