Excerpt from The Revival of Marxism IF the judgment on Marx and Marxism here given is considered too severe, at any rate it was made after a very careful reading of the evidence available, and the examination was undertaken without prejudice. In my opinion, as I have shown in other writings, the war disclosed serious weaknesses in the capitalistic system. As the result of these defects, debt and taxation, including that worst form of indirect taxation, the great rise in prices, are higher than they ought to have been. The war also, it is true, revealed the strength and the benefits of the capitalistic system and the weaknesses of governmental management. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.