But Joel Marx, a 25-year-old research assistant in Baltimore, Maryland, disagrees.

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But spending pages trying to parse Marx or Keynes, when much of what they wrote is indecipherable, would detract from conveying their main and meaningful messages.

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But many of her readers reacted to her writings in much the same way that leftists reacted to reading Marx.

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