Opinion of Karl Marx

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Probably the second or third most important person to have ever lived, accounting for only Jesus Christ and Adam Smith. Definite FF, even though a lot of what he postulated and predicted has at this point been refuted and/or hasn't happened yet. Hopefully that changes in the next century or so, and the social parasites are once and for all brought under heel.

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He was a great thinker, journalist and historian.  His economic theories are fundamentally flawed and wrong as proven by history and subsequent understanding.  But, they're still valuable as historical documents and intellectual exercises.

Also, it's ridiculous to lay the crimes of 20th century Marxists at the feet of a writer. 

Probably the second or third most important person to have ever lived, accounting for only Jesus Christ and Adam Smith. Definite FF, even though a lot of what he postulated and predicted has at this point been refuted and/or hasn't happened yet. Hopefully that changes in the next century or so, and the social parasites are once and for all brought under heel.

What is that supposed to mean?

The capitalists, of course. That's standard Marxist fare.

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Yeah, things were just so fine and dandy, with the benevolent business owners and their employees living peacefully together in harmony before that evil trickster Karl Marx came along.

Indeed, indeed. Take this for example:

Q. No break?

A. No break. Then I removed to coal mines after that. There we had low seams also, very low seams. There we had no rails to draw upon, that is, tramways laid like rails now for our tubs, or corves, or whirlies as we call them, to run upon. We had leather belts for our shoulders. One was before and another behind, and the wheels were cutting the pavements or floor - we called it pavement - and we had to keep dragging the coal with these ropes over our shoulders, and sometimes round the middle with a chain between our legs. Then there was always another pushing behind with his head.

Q. That work was done with children?

A. That work was done by boys, such as I was, from 10 or 11 down to eight, and I have known them as low as seven years old. In the mines at that time the state of ventilation was frightful.

From evidence given to the Royal Commission on Trades Unions in 1868.

but muh freedumb to hire kids