>I certainly do not agree with everything Karl Marx stood for but you have to give him credit, he changed the course of human history. Not many do that.
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>You probably already know that he lived in Paris and London as a young man. He didn't spend his whole life on a frozen steppe.
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>Compared to Lenin and some of those who followed he was a humanitarian.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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>>nb. I have already put a bet against myself that my mentioning Marx will take this into a different kind of dispute from what I intended. Now this note introduces a counter-assumption which throws the whole theory off, rendering the model invalid. But I'll still stick to the original theory based on the model without it.

OK, I won the bet.