Interesting One for the Philosophers

File this under interesting. Love him, hate him... the story demonstrates the influence of karl Marx's ideas. Besides, wasn't it M who said that history repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce?

In a shock result, Karl Marx has been voted the greatest ever philosopher following a poll by Melvyn Bragg's Radio 4 show In Our Time.

In the public's poll, which assessed 20 philosophers, Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, got 27.93% of the 30,000 votes. In second place came David Hume with 12.67%, followed by Ludwig Wittgenstein with 6.8%. Plato trailed in fifth place and Socrates at eighth.