COVER STORY Reflections on the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx*

Two hundred years after his birth, the legacy of Karl Marx is a brutal social experiment under communist rule in the East, and in the West a cultural revolution whose effects are still being worked through today.


Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. (If you seek his monument, look around.)

Karl Marx was born in Trier on the banks of the Moselle River in Germany on May 5, 1818. His Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, written at the height of the Industrial Revolution,…

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