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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050703
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Your editorial (June 26) underestimates Karl Marx in comparing him with the American Groucho. The first was a great humorist, too: just try to read Das Kapital - it is the biggest hoax of the 19th century.

Besides, to everybody who studied Marx well (as I did, as a student in the Soviet Union), it is crystal clear that he was a very poor economist and an amateur philosopher. Unfortunately his main message - propaganda for political violence and the establishment of a dictatorship - led to immense loss of human life in the 20th century.

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