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20th century and how road travel would go, he said with the
data you had at hand at the time you would have come to the
conclusion that all the wagons would have had to grind to
a halt because the horse manure would have been up over the
hubs.

Marx, a utopian dreamer. Even Bertrand Russell, certainly
no friend of mine and certainly not a man who would normally
be considered as a critic of Marx, says that, "He has grave
shortcomings as a philosopher and his purview is confined to
man. Since Copernicus man's importance has been in doubt
and no man who fails to understand that has no right to call
his philosophy scientific." That was written some many years
ago, I'm sure. His book Das Kapital is more or less beyond
the understanding of even Marxist economists, I'm told. It's
kind of mystical, because like everything else he wrote, he
was not writing textbooks, he was writing a bible. And this
bible is vague and it comes out as a matter of interpretation.
For fifty years men took this idea of the historic process
and from New York to Siberia there were underground revolutionaries
making conscious determined efforts to understand this process
of history and to locate the levers of social action. He
never was specific enough to tell how it really happened.
Why was he more influential than Mill and probably one of the
more influential men of this era? First of all, Mill was a
liberal and liberals kind of ten to rule in the name of
doubt. They always leave things open, that's part of the

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