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Feeding the Beast
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Feeding the Beast

When Angela Merkel became chancellor of Germany in late 2005, the conservative German newspaper Die Welt admitted that “Nobody knows in what direction she will take the country.”  The liberal Berliner Zeitung was equally ignorant, wondering, “What will she be demanding from us citizens?”  (In Europe, we have “democracies” of the kind in which politicians...

The Two Faces of Marxism
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The Two Faces of Marxism

I have one major problem with Paul Gottfried’s The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium: The title does not really fit the book. Professor Gottfried describes how Marxism as an economic theory has lost its appeal, even on the left, since World War II. Today’s leftists no longer advocate nationalization...