Who said the following, Karl Marx or Barack Obama? "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." The answer is… BOTH. Well, sort of. Marx DID say it a little differently. Marx said it this way: " From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Judging from their words they both support redistribution of the wealth.

Today’s column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker’s fascinating opus, “10 Books that Screwed up the World and 5 others that didn’t Help” (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be on Marxism’s founder, Karl Marx, and the chief propagandist of communism, Friedrich Engels, and their celebrated book, “The Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848).