Karl Marx, the man

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: September 27, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

KARL MARX by Francis Wheen (Fourth Estate, 20)

FRANCIS Wheen's first biography was called Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions, and this book, in which Wheen tries to understand Karl Marx as a human being, might have had a similar subtitle. Here, we learn that Marx, as well as being the father of socialism, was a serious drinker and inveterate sponger, a man who preached global revolution but insisted on living like a gentleman, who went on pub- crawls in the West End and impregnated his nanny. Funnily enough, until I read this litany of seediness and venality, I never had much time for ...

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