"And yet it does seem clear as print." It was the first time I had ever heard Karl Marx's* doctrine of surplus value elaborated, and Ernest had done it so simply that I, too, sat puzzled and dumbfounded.
* Karl Marx--the great intellectual hero of Socialism.

A German Jew of the nineteenth century.

A contemporary of John Stuart Mill.

It seems incredible to us that whole generations should have elapsed after the enunciation of Marx's economic discoveries, in which time he was sneered at by the world's accepted thinkers and scholars.

Because of his discoveries he was banished from his native country, and he died an exile in England.
"I'll tell you a way to get rid of the surplus," Ernest said.