My feelings about Das Kapital are the same as my feeling about the Koran. I
Know it is historically important and i know that many people, not all of whom are idiots, find it a sort of Rock of Ages and containing inspiration. Yet when I look into it, it is to me inexplicable that it can have this effect. Its dreary, out-of-date academic theorizing seems so extraordinarily unsuitable as material for the purpose…Will you promise to read it again, if I do?

- John Maynard Keynes to George Bernard Shaw, December 1934

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The Last Liberal and Other Essays, Ramachandra Guha