Ernest van den Haag on the Karl Marx Library

Karl Marx on Revolution; The Karl Marx Library, Vol. I Edited by Saul K. Padover McGraw-Hill, 682 pp., $17.50

Karl Marx on America and the Civil War; The Karl Marx Library, Vol. II Edited by Saul K. Padover McGraw-Hill, 298 pp., $10 Had Karl Marx never lived, the world would be a better place. He gave material for endless arguments to intellectuals and powerfully helped rationalize their urge for power. But the great mass of mankind had to pay a high price for the amusement of its intellectuals. The population of Eastern Europe bears mute witness to the use to which Marx’s ideas can be put. However, precisely because of this horrendous effect, his ideas and their development are of surpassing importance. They have played an undeniable role in shaping the fate of immense masses of people; and they threaten to continue to affect those who are not infected: Their lives will be in fluenced by their defense against various kinds of Marx-inspired attacks.

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Karl Marx on Revolution; The Karl Marx Library, Vol. I Edited by Saul K. Padover McGraw-Hill, 682 pp., $17.50

Karl Marx on America and the Civil War; The Karl Marx Library, Vol. II Edited by Saul K. Padover McGraw-Hill, 298 pp., $10 Had Karl Marx never lived, the world would be a better place. He gave material for endless arguments to intellectuals and powerfully helped rationalize their urge for power. But the great mass of mankind had to pay a high price for the amusement of its intellectuals. The population of Eastern Europe bears mute witness to the use to which Marx’s ideas can be put. However, precisely because of this horrendous effect, his ideas and their development are of surpassing importance. They have played an undeniable role in shaping the fate of immense masses of people; and they threaten to continue to affect those who are not infected: Their lives will be in fluenced by their defense against various kinds of Marx-inspired attacks.