Walter E. Williams: Historical tidbits

Published June 21, 2006 4:00am ET



Karl Marx is the hero of some labor union leaders and civil rights organizations, including those who organized the recent protest against proposed immigration legislation. It?s easy to be a Marxist if you haven?t read his writings. Most people agree that Marx?s predictions about capitalism turned out to be dead wrong.

What most people don?t know is that Marx was an out and out racist and anti-Semite. He didn?t think much of Mexicans.

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