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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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