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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040201
Author:Francis Wheen

The Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin may have been a sworn enemy of Karl Marx, but he was big enough to admit that, "very few men have read as much and, it may be added, have read as intelligently." A century and a half later, one might also say that very few have had so many unreadable tomes written about them. Most are by academics or zealots whose only readers are people like themselves, and who smother Marx's fiery talent with blankets of woolly prose. Happily, there are some brilliant exceptions. After the fall of the Berlin Wall triumphalists such as Francis Fukyama announced that Marx ...

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