If he had, it might have made billions of lives better, IMHO. I certainly do not know and am no expert on Marx. I know Marx is supposed to have read the works of Turgenev, but this one in particular, written and published after the Paris Commune, might have given him food for positive thought, had he had not been too set in his ways by 1877 when "Virgin Soil" was first published. It is Turgenev's "longest and most complex novel." The characters, and their lives, strategies, and tactics, successes, sacrifices, failures, motivations, and dreams for the future, could have made a valuable contribution to a fair and open-minded person, assuming Marx still was one. One can get consumed by one's own theories, hemmed in by one's own orthodoxy. It can be hard for famous people to sing different tunes when adherents and fans want to hear the popular songs. Aspiring youth, and perhaps even more so older persons working for a better world, might want to take note, of the novel and the natural human tendency.
Just sayin'.
2:32 PM PT: I mean no disrespect to Marx's justifiable anger and concern over the reactionaries' slaughter of participants in the Paris Commune. But there is an even bigger picture in this novel about how to be just and loving in an imperfect world. Peace.
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