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Biographer Schwarzschild is no admirer of Marx or Marxism. He is pointing to the fact that since World War I no other mind has so potently influenced the political and economic thinking and action of our times. There are masses of unconscious Marxists-men & women who have never read Marx's Capital, and who would rather be found dead than reading the Communist Manifesto, but whose thinking about the role of economic forces in history, the responsibility of government for the individual, and the importance of economic security v. political freedom has nevertheless been profoundly influenced by the choleric...
Even the efforts to fight Marxism with its own weapons have inevitably taken a Marxist turn. Both Naziism and Fascism, Biographer Schwarzschild points out, are Marxist mutations whose predestined political form is therefore the police state. In Nazi concentration camps, as in Russian forced-labor camps, Karl Marx was the presiding genius. In the name of human progress, Marx has probably caused more death, misery, degradation and despair than any man who ever lived...
...always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist whose economic knowledge was perfunctory and puerile. Marx's mind was undoubtedly diabolic (history is studded with malign political geniuses). But it is no help in understanding or combating Marxism to deny its author's perverse brilliance...
Though he adopted some of the analyses of Marxism, Chesterton's ideal pattern for society lay not in the future (with the dictatorship of the proletariat) but in the past. In the Middle Ages, said he, men inhabited "a world more wonderful than the eyes of men have looked on before or after . . . and saw St. Francis walking with his halo a cloud of birds...
Marx's theory on evolution is just as applicable to primitive societies as it is to advanced ones, Bernhard J. Sterm told the John Reed Society's final forum on Marxism and Modern Thought last night...