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From: The New Leader | Date: November 29, 1999 | Copyright information

Marx Mixup

Gus Tyler's "Evolution of a Millennium" (NL, October 18) is yet another tour de force by THE NEW LEADER's resident polymath. His historical analysis is cogent and fully applicable to our world today.

In describing Marx' contribution, however, Tyler falls into an error that has been repeated by many "Marxists" and non-Marxists." Marx never "proposed revolutionizing the economic system so that the working people would get the full fruits of their la...

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