“A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.” When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote those words in 1848 they were acknowledging that their newly minted social and economic philosophy was already seen as a threat to the capitalist world. They were right.
Communism has incited revolutions, toppled regimes, started wars, and fallen itself. But in a 21st century world of populist politics, will it rise again?
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