Karl Marx
Sir, — Quoting out of context is the primary resort of the polemically bankrupt, and Robin Booth (February 1) achieves distinction of sorts with a most perverse misinterpretation of Marx, impossible to match. It is doubtful if Marx actually invented the concept of graduated income tax and the circumstance in which Marx prescribed a heavy progressive or graduated income tax was where "the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy,” does not exist in the countries named by Robin Booth, therefore by no stretch of the imagination is there any validity to his far-fetched theory that people who suffer heavily-pro-gressive or graduated income tax are “victims of Marxism.” In personal circumstances that would have crushed a lesser spirit, Marx made contributions to the treasure store of human intellectual discovery, which only posterity will justly assess. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. February 1, 1986.
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Press, 6 February 1986, Page 16
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