Arthur Marx Arthur Marx Arthur Julius Marx (July 21, 1921April 14, 2011) was an American author, a nationally ranked amateur tennis player, and son of entertainer Groucho Marx, and his first wife, Ruth Johnson. He was named after Groucho's brother Arthur "Harpo" Marx. Marx spent his early years accompanying his father around vaudeville circuits in the United States and abroad. When he was 10, the family moved to Southern California, where the Marx Brothers continued their film careers. Marx was a nationally ranked tennis player before he was 18. While he was attending the University of Southern California, he won the National
Karl Marx and the Close of His System has been seen as one of the most important discussions of Marx's economic theories, along with Rudolf Hilferding's "Böhm-Bawerk's Criticism of Marx", a defense of Marx against Bawerk. Bawerk's work is the "classical" critique of "Capital". Most subsequent critiques of Marxist economics have repeated Bawerk's arguments. Marxist economist Ernest Mandel identifies "Karl Marx and the Close of His System" as part of a literature, beginning with German social democrat Eduard Bernstein, that criticizes the dialectical method Marx borrowed from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel as "useless", "metaphysical", or "mystifying." He faults Böhm-Bawerk and the other critics for what he regards as