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Too bad A.C. Grayling cited Marxism as an unthinking orthodoxy akin to religion, to be obeyed at all costs. Marx himself said in the 1st German Preface to Capital:
"I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself". Hardly seeking mindless slaves, now was he?
I understand that Grayling is referring to the events in Russia, China, Cuba etc., but what happened there was a far cry from what Marx himself advocated. Even in his own life Marx is reported as saying "If these people are Marxists, then I am not a Marxist".
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