Karl Marx expert claims the man is misread, his life is misunderstood, and he’s is often recast by different political movements for legitimacy though no link exists

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

The Christian Science Monitor

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life

by Jonathan Sperber Liveright

672 pp.

For readers who hold certain beliefs about politics and economics, Karl Marx represents the Devil, because Marxism has become synonymous with Communism. And Communism, in turn, spawned the allegedly evil empires of the Soviet Union.