Marx’s Ideological Funeral . . .

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Premature Obituaries for Seemingly Dead Ideas

Was Marx a success? His theories were wrong. His predictions were wrong. But he posthumously captured the mind of a 21-year-old college grad in Russia. By 1950, a third of the world's population lived under officially Marxist regimes.

There is a lesson here. We do not know how any group's ideas will play out. What we know is this: most of these groups and their ideas will disappear, useful only for graduate students in search of a Ph.D. dissertation topic. But a few will change the world . . . sometimes long after they have failed to persuade more than a handful of people.
-Gary North

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