There is probably no name in the labor movement today, yes and in the scientific world, which is more revered and idolized than that of the founder of scientific Socialism: Karl Marx. In the proletarian movement the name of Marx has become a synonym for scientific soundness and irrefutable accuracy on the one hand, and also a cloak with which to cover and label the most spurious intellectual wares on the other... Upon the death of Marx, Frederick Engels wrote amongst others to Wilhelm Liebknecht: "The greatest mind of the second half of our century has ceased to think." He ends his pathetic letter with the following glowing tribute: "Whatever we are, we are through him; and whatever the movement of today is, it is through his theoretical and practical work; without him, we would still be stuck in the mire of confusion."