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After communism - Marx; Marx's intellectual legacy.(The post-communist Karl Marx)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20021221
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As a system of government, communism is dead or dying. As a system of ideas, its future looks secure

WHEN Soviet communism fell apart towards the end of the 20th century, nobody could say that it had failed on a technicality. A more comprehensive or ignominious collapse--moral, material and intellectual--would be difficult to imagine. Communism had tyrannised and impoverished its subjects, and slaughtered them in the tens of millions. For decades past, in the Soviet Union and its satellite countries, any allusion to the avowed aims of communist doctrine--equality, freedom ...

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