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THIS is a straightforward and readable criticism, written primarily from an American angle. The author describes how history has deviated from the path which Marx marked out for it; he shows up the dreary unrealities and illogicalities of the Marxian theory of value: he shares, in the main, with the orthodox economists and the neo-socialists, the conviction that extensive economic planning is incompatible with personal freedom, and that only under a free market system, where the consumer is king, can the public be well served with the goods and services of its choice; and finally he delivers a relatively mild attack upon the metaphysical foundations of Marxism.
Marxism
A Post-Mortem. By Henry Bamford Parkes. Pp. vii + 246. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1940.) 7s. 6d. net.
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WOOTTON, B. Marxism. Nature 146, 508 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146508a0
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