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...Das Kapital by Karl Marx...
From the day, 68 years ago, when a bourgeois German Jew published his antlike researches in the British Museum and called it Das Kapital, his book has been gathering a Biblical reputation. Almost unmentioned in polite U. S. society before 1929, and still largely unread. Das Kapital now figures at piecemeal third-hand in many a topical argument, news story, sermon, book. The swelling spate of "proletarian novels" is a form of Marxian exegesis. Often too obviously propaganda for Marxian dogmas, they are apt to make dull if uncomfortable reading for non-Marxians. But last year Robert Cantwell...
...orthodoxy rigidly if unofficially defined, has been marked recently. It is chiefly as a repudiation of this tendency that the "Student News," however ridiculous or subversive its viewpoint may appear, should be encouraged. One need not believe in the wickedness of Mr. Durant nor in the divine inspiration of "Das Kapital" to be an uncompromising defender of free speech...
...only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...
...Somehow 'das Here von Wien' is not discoverable in the prose, so the book must be judged on the lyrics, which justify the expenditure of an hour's reading...