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In 1879 Karl Marx and his collaborator Frederick Engels summed up their politics thus:

A grim history Bad food produced by profit-hungry companies has been a hallmark of capitalism from the beginning.

Concern about humanity’s destruction of the environment is commonly seen as a recent worry. But for the 19th century socialist thinkers Karl Marx and Frederick Engels the environment was a major part of their theory.

"DRAT THE British!" Karl Marx once said in frustration at his London exile. When the European revolutions of 1848 began to crumble Marx was forced to come to London.

AS MARX once said, \"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don't know.\" As you have probably guessed I'm talking about Groucho, not Karl, who along with Chico, Harpo and Zeppo made up the Marx Brothers. Their slapstick comedy routines and films are sheer genius.

Review of 'Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America', August Nimtz, Lexington Books £20.95

Karl Marx continues to be damned because of the revolutionary power he identified, argues Paul Foot.

GEORGE MONBIOT, in his recent book The Age of Consent, makes what is a common complaint against Marxism.

THE Communist Manifesto, I suggested last week, identified the new forces being unleashed by modern capitalism. Marx's classic pamphlet argued that capitalism also created a new exploited class, the "proletariat"-the modern working class.

THERE HAS been an explosion of ideas and debate in the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. People are hungry for answers, and words have been poured over the inequality, misery and war created by global capitalism and how to stop it. On the eve of a previous wave of protest, one which saw revolution spread across Europe, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote one of the most famous and influential political pamphlets of all time: The Communist Manifesto.

Review of 'Marx and Anglo-Russian Relations and Other Writings', D B Riazanov, Francis Boutle Publishers £10

Review of 'Marx and Engels: Collected Works Volume 49', Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Lawrence and Wishart £45