What Marx and Freud have in common - and a word about Freud's "killing of the father" in Dostoevsky.
Marx and Freud provided a narrative of man's past, present, and future.
It was that redemptive story that attracted so many people, Tony Judt said.
And it doesn't matter if the stories they tell are really true or not.
Whether or not the story is appealing enough to attract people is a major point of influence for Marxist-Freudian theory.