Happy Birthday, Karl

Though wrong on many counts, Marx continues to be relevant

Karl Marx, who was born on May 5, 1818, spawned a philosophy that was intended solely for the benefit of the deprived. He came at their problem from three different angles: A theory of history, a theory of sociology and a theory of economics. No one had done it before in such an integrated way. Marx also got his timing right. When his siren call to the workers of the world to unite against their exploiters, called The Communist Manifesto, was published the good people — Charles Dickens and William Gladstone amongst them — were beginning to recoil in horror at