“... of this country that still burns hotly today. Fifth, though he quotes Galsworthy, he ignores Karl Marx, whose moral clash with the City was somewhat more productive: I wonder if he’ll ignore another great and unfashionable economic journalist, Keynes, in Volume II. Finally, though the book is very well written, Kynaston has a fondness for last ...”

“... in which no blood was spilled. Democratic tendencies spread through the Var, even before Karl Marx, thanks to the utopian communism of Cabet. Some artisans were followers of Flora Tristan, the charming Lenin in skirts (‘Just imagine: I recognised my shoemaker,’ said one conservative préfet, speaking of these agitators who had marched forth ...”

“... the pomp almost, of the ambience. Are we really up to it? It is all very well for Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx (even for Mandy Rice-Davies and Jeremy Paxman, who the Library, a little coyly, include in the list of celebrated readers they hand out to the press), but most readers are not famous or notorious; some of us are vague and dilatory – doubtful ...”

“... Lenin’s party was to a greater degree the party of Peter I than the party of Karl Marx since it strove first and foremost to ensure that Russia imitated contemporary forms of Western organisation’), those dealing with the years following Stalin’s death are brilliantly written and will be quite indispensable for the study of ...”

“... The Golden Calf, in which the landscape of 1920s Russia is dotted with ‘the false grandsons of Karl Marx, the non-existent nephews of Friedrich Engels, the brothers of Lunacharsky, and as a last resort descendants of the famous anarchist Prince Kropotkin’. Fitzpatrick’s study sets out to find the real-life counterparts of these fictional ...”

“... of leading political philosophers: Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Kant, Hegel, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. The final chapter, prompted by a tenacious reader of the manuscript, draws the moral of these analyses by explaining why there are so few socialists left in the West today. (It does a little less well with the task of explaining why there are ...”

“... for the greatest bad argument in political theory. They are: Thomas Hobbes, for Leviathan; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, for The Communist Manifesto; and Plato, for the Republic. Why them? Each of the candidates is hallowed as a Penguin Classic. Each has been foisted on freshman generations in Pol Phil 101. And each could be thought to ...”

“... use of Australia as a jail, the creation of a police force, the polemics of Cobbett Carlyle Ruskin Marx Engels and General Booth mainly prove a benign new upper-class care for the condition of the lower. But many felt unfairly oppressed. They joined religious sects who thought God must come down to destroy oppressors and make the world better, or supported ...”

“... according to Stubbs, now suffer less than they used to do in hard times. But with all respect to Karl Marx the ‘poet of commodities’, one feels that much poetry has gone with the rationalisation of the industry into Consolidado Numero I and Fabrica de Tobacos 3, and that the fate of the Cuban cigar is uncertain as the government of the Cuban people ...”

“... of the pleasure of the volume comes from its sometimes unexpected juxtapositions: a letter from Karl Marx to his wife Jenny following directly on Wordsworth writing to Mary; an 11th-century Chinese poet apparently voicing many of the same sentiments on the death of his wife as the very British Henry King, whose ‘Exequy’ comes next. It is, of ...”

“... appears to be Quaker quietism without, it appears, being seen as apostasy of any kind. It is as if Karl Marx had accepted a chair at a German university on the basis of his publications. When, at the beginning of their exposition, the editors plead with us not to judge Winstanley by ordinary standards of consistency, they are admitting their own ...”

“... Pieces’) but forbids him ever to describe her physically. She says she prefers Sylvia Plath to Karl Marx, but appreciates the latter’s notion of a ghost ‘haunting a whole continent’ rather than just an old building or two; during a handjob she tells Saul that ‘a spectre was inside every photograph she developed in the darkroom,’ and reminds ...”

“... state that one of the messages of hope and encouragement coming to the workers of the world from Karl Marx was ‘that the nature of capitalist development ... made the overthrow of the present society and its replacement by a new and better society quite uncertain.’ Nevertheless, the confident assertion towards the end that ‘after 1917 it became ...”

“... so much, are so unswerving in their loyalty to their country’. But because China is Marxist and Marx is a Westerner, it is easily forgotten that Chinese Marxism is Chinese. It will be difficult for European intellectuals to bridge the gap between his hero’s past (‘sitting at my desk, reading my beloved Shakespeare’) and his present (where a single ...”

“... family had been idealised and old age venerated since time out of mind. Before very long the young Karl Marx would be penning his strictures on ‘the miserable illusions of the bourgeois domestic hearth’. There is a great deal in a book like this for Marxists to ponder, much flesh and blood to clothe the bare bones of historical theory. Fresh emotion ...”