Most of what Mar xhad to say was just not true.
However his comments on the abolition of the family have proved prophetic: about half of the children in advanced Western countries today are born to or brought up by single mothers, and half of all households in large cities consist of single persons
Marx's legacy
Seventy years after Marx’s death, for better or for worse, one third of
humanity lived under political regimes inspired by his thought. Well over 20
per cent still do. Socialism has been described as the greatest reform movement
in human history. Few intellectuals have changed the world in such practical
ways. That is usually the preserve of statesmen, scientists and generals, not
of philosophers and political theorists. Freud may have changed lives, but
hardly governments. ‘The only individually identifiable thinkers who have
achieved comparable status,’ Hobsbawm writes, ‘are the founders of the great
religions in the past, and with the possible exception of Muhammad none has
triumphed on a comparable scale with such rapidity.’ Yet very few, as Hobsbawm
points out, would have predicted such celebrity for this poverty-stricken,
carbuncle-ridden Jewish exile, a man who once observed that nobody had ever
written so much about money and had so little
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