Marxism Still a Continuing Argument?!

In the "it would be funny if it weren't so sad" category, consider this news item from Britain's Sunday Times:

"His influence may have waned on the global political stage, but Karl Marx seems certain to be voted the world’s greatest philosopher in a new poll.

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Wheen said: 'He’s far more wide-ranging than the others on the list. He was not just a philosopher but was also very much involved in politics, economics and history. Marxism is also still a continuing argument, so that helps to give him credibility and relevance.' "

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'Actually, Marx himself was rather buried, as it were, by communist leaders such as Stalin and Kim Il-sung during much of the 20th century,” said Wheen. “It is they who discredited communism, but Marx’s own ideas are still very viable and influential' "

Uh huh... Spend a day reading Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society," ... have a conversation with Williams, Roberts, Boudreaux, Sowell, ... there's a lot more.  They'll quickly disabuse you of any pretense to the notion of the communist vision being a possibility in the real world.