I recently found out that there is a book: P. Godfried. "The Strange Death of Marxism." Unfortunately, I haven't seen it yet. But it’s surprisingly well said. It seems to be already dead, but no... What, really, is an “eternally living teaching”? As a person who has studied Marxism quite thoroughly, I can say: no, not eternally living, but damn tenacious. The persistence of Marxism is explained by many reasons, among which one of the main ones is our inability to understand what this phenomenon is by its nature. A whole hierarchy of masks, deceptions and distracting arrows was created by the founders of Marxism to prevent exposure of the essence of this phenomenon. One magazine article cannot cover them all, but nevertheless...

(Revised version of an article published under the same title in Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Moscow) July 7, 1992)