{"id":22945,"date":"2018-05-05T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22945"},"modified":"2018-05-05T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:10:24","slug":"so-what-kind-of-man-was-karl-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22945","title":{"rendered":"So what kind of man was Karl Marx?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All around the world &#8211; but in very different ways &#8211; people are marking today as the 200th anniversary of the birth of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Marx\">Karl Marx<\/a> in Trier, Prussia.\u00a0Although my politics have always been firmly Left of Centre, I&#8217;ve never been attracted to Marx&#8217;s ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I acknowledge that he is a giant in philosophical and political thought but, as a man, he was a deeply flawed character as explained in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Biographies#Marx\">my review<\/a> of the biography by Francis Wheen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All around the world &#8211; but in very different ways &#8211; people are marking today as the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx in Trier, Prussia.\u00a0Although my politics have always been firmly Left of Centre, I&#8217;ve never been attracted to Marx&#8217;s ideas. I acknowledge that he is a giant in philosophical and political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22948,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22945\/revisions\/22948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}