Dear Guest Bastiat,

If you'd like to come over to Belgium, I can take you to the very room where Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote the Manifesto. I don't believe any Jesuits or Opus Dei members were present according to historical record.

Marx's work stands up well from a philosophical point of view be it not for the perversions of human greed/nature and the the utter bollix the likes of Lenin, Stalin and others made of them in their own visions (or lack thereof).

Anyway, happy birthday Karl Marx (at least from me!)

Peace

moo