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The Rediscovery of Karl Marx
Marcello Musto

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Few men have shaken the world like Karl Marx. His death, almost
unnoticed, was followed by echoes of fame in such a short period of time
that few comparisons could be found in history. His name was soon on the
lips of the workers of Detroit and Chicago, as on those of the first Indian
socialists in Calcutta. His image formed the background of the congress of
the Bolsheviks in Moscow after the revolution. His thought inspired the
programmes and statutes of all the political and union organizations of the
workers’ movement, from Europe to Shanghai.


His ideas have changed philosophy, history, and economics irreversibly.
Yet despite the affirmation of his theories, turned into dominant ideologies
and state doctrines for a considerable part of humankind in the twentieth
century, and the widespread dissemination of his writings, to date he is still
deprived of an unabridged and scientific edition of his works. Of the
greatest thinkers of humanity, this fate befell him exclusively...

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