in his defense, which is that for his defenders, he is not simply another thinker. He is not even to be compared with Hume or the sage of Königsberg. For his followers, Marx is the last or (depending on how you count it) the originating prophet. He was not just a thinker or a sage—he was the formulator of a world-revolutionary movement. A movement that claimed to know how to reorder absolutely everything in human affairs in order to arrive at a utopian society. A utopian society that has never been achieved and has cost many millions of lives in not being achieved but that activists across the
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