Karl Marx: (1818-1883) Major socialist theoretician who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote the “The Communist Manifesto” (1848). Hayek points out that except for its internationalist ideals—often honored only in the breech by such communist countries as Soviet Russia—Marxist ideas often fit comfortably with fascist nationalism. Several Marxist intellectuals cited by Hayek more or less easily became Nazis or crypto-fascists. (See Werner Sombart (qv) or Edward H. Carr (qv), for examples.)
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