No surprises there, perhaps - except that the villain in question has been dead since 1883. 'Marx the Monster' was the [Daily] Mail's furious reaction to the news that thousands of Radio 4 listeners had chosen Karl Marx as their favourite thinker.
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Marx and Engels gave a very good analysis of the capitalist system 150 years ago, better in some ways, I must say, than the equilibrium theory of classical economics. The main reason why their dire predictions did not come true was because of countervailing political interventions in democratic countries.