I have been criticized by some of my conservative friends for what they see as my obsession with Marxism. I am a conservative, but my reason for studying Karl Marx is not necessarily to endorse Marxism. I study Marx for the same reason I study Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Nietzsche, or Ayn Rand: because understanding influential ideas helps me understand history, economics, politics, and the modern world. Marx’s analysis of class conflict, alienation, and........

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