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The styles are scarcely comparable. Marx-Engels wrote in fire; Kelso-Adler seem to be writing under water. Yet the book achieves a triumph of grey matter over grey manner. Four points stand out:
Despite violent objections, The Capitalist Manifesto, by its very existence, refutes the charge that capitalist thought has lost the imaginative flexibility to cope with the challenges of the age. Above all, the book forces the reader to re-examine the foundation and the future of capitalism, not merely as an...
"If Marx, Engels and Lenin could rise now from their graves," he said, "they would ridicule these bookworms and quoters who, instead of studying modern society and creatively developing theory, are attempting to find among the classics a quotation on what to do with a machine-tractor station."
Berlin's huge Marx-Engels Platz for Khrushchev's farewell appearance.
At a "mass rally" at the Leipzig stadium (last filled to its 100,000 capacity at a Protestant church day in 1954), Khrushchev was soaked by a drenching rain that broke as he entered the arena. "This is not the welcome we had planned for the glorious Soviet leader," wailed...