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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050626
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In a poll of listeners to the BBC's In Our Time, Karl Marx has taken an early lead in the race to be voted the greatest philosopher of all time. In our view, however, the only Marx with a legitimate claim to the title was born seven years after Karl's death: namely, Groucho (1890-1977).

Karl was wrong about the "dictatorship of the proletariat'', but Groucho was right to observe that: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.'' Karl Marx's theory of history is long discredited. But there is still wisdom in Groucho Marx's dictum: "Time flies like ...

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