<HTML> > "[Karl Marx] enjoyed the reputation of having acquired great learning, and > as I knew very little of his discoveries and theories, I was all the more > eager to gather words of wisdom from the lips of the famous man.  This > expectation was disappointed in a peculiar way.  Marx's utterances were > indeed full of meaning, logical and clear, but I have never seen a man whose > bearing was so provoking and intolerable.  To no opinion which differed from > his own did he accord the honor of even condescending consideration. > Everyone who contradicted him he treated with abject contempt; every > argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn at the > unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions > upon the motives of him who advanced it. Maybe Hitch *is* correct to say that he still sees the world as a Marxist . . . DP ^^^^^^ CB: Ah , but remember. Marx was no Marxist. :>) </HTML>