http://chronicle.com/article/In-Praise-of-Marx/127027/
The truth is that Marx was no more responsible for the monstrous oppression of the communist world than Jesus was responsible for the Inquisition.
Terry Eagleton is a visiting professor at Lancaster University, in England; the National University of Ireland; and the University of Notre Dame. His latest book, Why Marx Was Right, was just published by Yale University Press.
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Almost every Marxist country committed genocide against some portion of its citizens: The USSR led off with the liquidation of the Kulaks, China had the Cultural Revolution, Cambodia killed a quarter of its population, and so on.
The Inquisition was a Catholic CounterReformation deal that maybe offed like what -- 3000 people in Spain?
How can Eagleton compare 2 million dead in Cambodia to a couple thousand in Spain?
The comparison is absurd.
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