“... about Russian belligerent colonialism in Ukraine either. If shame is a revolutionary sentiment, as Karl Marx apostrophised, then one could feel shame. A researcher from the Middle East working in Berlin told me about a conversation she had with her German supervisor after 7 October. (Her university’s leadership had promptly announced absolute ...”

“... number: ‘Oh you’re a clever coon,’ he tells Patrick. ‘All those books you read. Max Weber. Karl Marx. Religion and the Rise of – what was it the rise of?’ (My experience of the Rhodesian security police is limited but I confess I was surprised by the Max Weber bit.) The priests at the Mission do not appreciate that the baby is a literary and ...”

“... Eastman defined himself as an ‘American lyrical socialist – a child of Walt Whitman reared by Karl Marx’. But with America’s entry into the war, the same thinkers saw an outbreak of ‘blind tribal instincts’ among intellectual leaders no less than among the masses. Eastman’s essay on ‘The Religion of Patriotism’, and Bourne’s on ‘The ...”

“... refuge from rural tribalism. Probably the single point on which he would have wanted to agree with Karl Marx was on the latter’s sense of ‘the idiocy of rural life’. Cobb’s detestation of gemeinschaftliche Gemütlichkeit makes his favoured spots small cities and middling towns: in England, Tunbridge Wells and Oxford; in France, places like ...”

“... Thatcherite mode; and his extraordinary comments to the WI delegates about Little Lord Fauntleroy, Karl Marx and egalitarianism suggest he has given no serious thought whatever to something as central to the Labour Party as the distribution of income. Gordon Brown says he doesn’t like the universities but has evinced no other signs of wanting to ...”

“... on the historian – and were not averse to extrapolating it into the future. Among them was Karl Marx. The idea of progress, at least in human affairs, lost its gloss in the 20th century. Not only has it been exorcised by historians, it has also largely fallen from favour among evolutionary biologists, who now hold that we are merely one of ...”

“... the interconnections between base and superstructure behind the historical materialism of Karl Marx. For Debray, the goal is to dissolve the conventional barriers separating culture from technology, to think of them not as irrevocable antagonists, but ‘one by the other, one with the other’. One consequence of deliberately interlacing cultural ...”

“... Quinet and a handful of other, non-academic, non-positivist, non-specialist writers – including Karl Marx – who shared a grand passion for public affairs and ‘sought the secrets of contemporary France’ in the heritage of the Great Revolution. Such is the narrative tradition that Furet aims to revive in Revolutionary France. His revival of ...”

“... complexity, obscurity, and not infrequent contradictions, Keynes was in the great tradition of Karl Marx and the Holy Scriptures, and it is not certain that Keynes was entirely without understanding and purpose in this matter.’ To Galbraith, such diversionary tactics helped bamboozle economists into receiving Keynes’s ‘central point’ about the ...”

“... keep the American colonies loyal to Charles III (1766-88). And so it goes on: the Jewish prophet Karl Marx inspires the Russian priest Vladimir Ulyanov, a general called Lee wins at Gettysburg, a prime minister called Gladstone proposes Home Rule for Ulster, Britain stays out of a First World War but is occupied in a Second until – North America still ...”

“... Webb, who told the 1923 Labour Party Conference that the founder of British socialism was not Karl Marx but Robert Owen, who ‘preached not “class war”, but the ancient doctrine of human brotherhood’. Baldwin’s consistent rhetorical subordination of politics to religion and ethics was a particular asset in winning over the traditionally ...”

“... because we live in the 20th century.’ The entire continent was fired by a combination of Karl Marx, the Declaration of Independence and Walt Whitman, but Guatemala burned the brightest. There, a decades-long struggle to break the back of the coffee aristocracy culminated in the 1950 election of Arbenz, who with the help of a small circle of ...”

“... the State Department than in the US Treasury, for the IMF ‘has overthrown more governments than Marx and Lenin combined’, as one observer quoted in the book remarks. In short, the reader will get something approaching a first-hand feel of how a truly unfettered market in international money has transformed investors into gamblers, bankers into bookmakers ...”

“... notably ‘black diamonds’, as coal, or at any rate anthracite, used to be called. Where is Karl Marx now we need him? Marx should have taught us that imperialist wars, like most other human events and processes, are largely driven by material motives. Well, he did teach us that, but his overall thesis required ...”

“... If Communism is only sketchily described, then post-Communism is simply unthinkable in Marx’s philosophy of history. So how can we make sense of his remarkable masterpiece in the 150th anniversary year of its original publication? The Communist Manifesto still feels alive to the touch. But what does a ‘modern edition’ of the work have to teach those inhabiting a world which Marx himself could not conceivably have anticipated? Generations of scholars have sifted the archives to unearth ‘Marx before Marxism ...”