“Engels is left holding the bag of 20th-century ideological extremism,” Mr. Hunt writes, “while Marx is rebranded as the acceptable, postpolitical seer of global capitalism.” Mr. Hunt, a young British academic and a columnist for The Guardian, embarks on a two-part rescue mission in “Marx’s General.”

The League felt that no benefit could arise from meek and gentle applyings to Parliament […]

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They came up with a compromise where he could compete in a special swim-off two months later.