ABSTRACT
THE “contradictions of capitalism,” which Karl Marx saw everywhere, are as nothing compared to the contradictions of Marx himself. Marx was a gentle father and husband; he was also a prickly, brusque, egotistical boor.… Although Marx was a learned man, he shows all the signs of a self-taught amateur: overelaboration of trivial points, errors in logic and inference, and a megalomaniac’s belief in the superiority of his own innovations. He introduced into scholarly literature manners not seen since the polemics of the renaissance.…
