With the exceptions of Shakespeare and possibly George Washington, no other historical figure seems to attract as much scholarly attention as Karl Marx. There are perhaps 20,000 titles and counting on him.In fact, Marx enjoys higher repute than ever in this age of global angst, elevated from the dedicated communist and critic of capitalism to the guru of a rational humanity. Marx, we learn, “changed the world” (Mary Gabriel). Current authors cherry-pick evidence or ‘improve’ his texts; blot out murky chapters of his life and ideology;accept his demonstrably Hegelian/Orwellian jargon at face value, and denigrate his democratic opponents and critics. Distinguished past critics of Marx and Marxism such as Leopold Schwarzschild, Raymond Aron, and Karl Popper would be amazed. Is Marx’s miraculous rebirth symptomatic of a creeping acceptance of totalitarianism in general?