“Did you ever read Karl Marx? I think I never struck a book which taught me so much, and with which I disagreed so radically in conclusion.” Henry Adams
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Capital, of course! Wrote this in a letter in 1894.
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Not entirely surprising. During the Civil War, a much younger Adams, then in London with his father, also intersected with the "democrats and socialists" who were holding rallies demanding the British not align with the South
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I'm fairly certain he was referring to Capital: in a letter to Brooks, he wrote, "Of course I've read Marx— at least Capital— but I've not read Engels." https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6699&context=gradschool_disstheses …pic.twitter.com/UNQ116AVXS
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