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Article: A Marx Brother Of the Right; `Das Kapital,' Supply-Side Text?
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- The Washington Post
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- April 24, 1994
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BECAUSE AMERICANS naturally equated Karl Marx with our mortal
enemies throughout the Cold War, we found it easy enough to think of
him as an evil genius who would have nothing to teach us today. In
many ways, though, Marx's original insights are more valuable
because we now no longer have our vision of him colored by
adversarial tensions. Surprising as it may seem to those who equate
the collapse of communism with the failed ideas of "The Communist
Manifesto" and "Das Kapital," there is actually little connection
between the two.
Marx would certainly have applauded the Soviet Union going into
the dustbin of history, as it exemplified all that he stood against
- a corrupt oligarchy ...