On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Bill Quimby <wquimby at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Well, there was one attempt - I have a copy of the cartoon
> book "Marx For Beginners", copyright 1976, originally published
> in Mexico as "Marx para Principiantes". The author is listed
> solely as Rius. There were several cartoon books in this series,
> among them also "Lenin For Beginners"
>
> I remember thinking informative and entertaining.
>
> Amazon lists several copies for sale, new and used (used for
> $4.39).
>
> - Bill
>
> Michael Smith wrote:
>
>> Just had an interesting experience. My teenage daughter -- who never reads
>> books if she can help it, but loves comic strips -- asked me what this dude
>> Karl Marx was all about.
>> I thought for a minute and then told her that he was a guy who thought
>> history was all about class struggle. (Shallow, I know, but you try 25 words
>> or less while a teenage girl with a short attention span looks at you
>> skeptically).
>> Her response: Well, duuhh, everybody knows *that*. Why do people think
>> he's so crazy?
>> I wanted to find a comic-strip version of Capital to give her. Apparently
>> there isn't one
>> yet in English, though just last month, it seems, a manga version appeared
>> in Japan.
>> This seems shocking to me. Why on earth hasn't somebody done a comic-strip
>> Capital years ago? Marx is so concrete and vivid -- he'd be as big a treat
>> for an illustrator as Dickens.
>>
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