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MARXISM'S half-life has been amazing. Outside of our finest universities, pretty much no one believes in the junk, and yet it hangs over the intellectual and political landscape like background radiation. Its categories and materialistic assumptions seep even into conservative analysis. We talk about the lower class and the upper class and, above all, we pay homage to that million-headed god of electoral politics: the middle class--as if this were an entirely natural way to divide our heterogeneous population.
Of course, Republicans increasingly speak the language of values rather than solely in economic terms. And it is a sign of Marxism's enduring appeal that ...