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Prof. John Womack, a self-styled Marxist, is quoted in The Crimson ("At Harvard, Marxism Quietly Goes Out of Style," news story, Oct. 31, 1994) stating that "at some levels Marxism...is about as respectable as astrology."
There may be a good reason for this, for Marx believed in phrenology Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the German Socialist Party, writes in his Memoirs that when he came to London in the 1860s to join Marx's faction, before he was admitted, Pfander--the official party phrenologist--danced, his fingers around his skull. This was printed in the Kerr edition of Liebknecht's memoirs, but when these were reprinted by Moscow and the International Publishing (the official Communist publishing house in the United States), those passages were omitted without any dots or ellipses to indicate that cuts.
Since Marx may now be moving in some other worlds, there may yet be a case for astrology as well. Daniel Belt Hantry Ford II. Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus
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