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An old man's battle against imperialism, with key lessons for us today

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May 17, 2024
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Capitalism is not what Marx thought it was. Shortly before he and his partner, Friedrich Engels, wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848, Engels had been sent to work in the offices of his father’s manufacturing company in Salford, England. His father hoped to rid Friedrich of his radical ideas. It didn’t work (his father didn’t know about his radical Iri…

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