Mises bores into Marx

I hadn't seen this criticism of Marx before and when I did I laughed, because it's so true ...

"The most remarkable fact about this unprecedented prestige of an author is that even his most enthusiastic admirers do not read his main writings and are not familiar with their content. A few passages and sentences from his books, always the same, are quoted again and again in political speeches and pamphlets. But the voluminous books and the scores of articles and pamphlets turned out by Marx are, as can be easily shown, not perused even by politicians and authors who proudly call themselves Marxians. Many people buy or borrow from a library reprints of Marx's writings and start reading them. But, bored to death, they usually stop after a few pages, if they had not already stopped on the first page."

The next time you meet a marxist, ask them what primary works they have read of his. If they hold the position that communism has never existed, remark that crude communism has and point them in the direction of "Private Property and Communism" in Marx's Economic Manuscripts.