Karl Marx: The Greatest Creative Writer of all Time.
The great philosopher and economist didn’t sign up for a creative writing course,when writing the most incisive analysis of the logic of capital, but his prose remains compelling today, as it was, 174 years ago.
Suffice it to say that Karl Marx has to be one of the most polarizing figures in the history of mankind; There are those, who will take umbrage at the mere mention of the towering intellectual, pointing the finger of blame at him for all of the carnage that took place, in the twentieth century — in Chairman Mao’s China and in Stalin’s Russia and there will be millions across the world, lining up to defend their man, absolving him of any responsibility for genocidal fascism and totalitarian communism.
The raison d’etre of this short article, is to take a bit of time to dissect and appreciate the prose of communist manifesto and to a much lesser degree, Das Kapital.
There can be no question that Marx was wrong a few areas, not least on the internationalism of the working classes — this notion was painfully eviscerated in the trenches of Flanders, Dardanelles and elsewhere in western Europe during both wars, when working men of different nationalities, happily slaughtered each other.
But he and his lifelong supporter, friend and benefactor — Friedrich Engels, were…