They have read and thoroughly studied Marx, and perhaps quote him more than us...it would have been better if they hadn’t read him, for there is also a way of reading books like a burglar flicking through wads of banknotes. In the hours before dawn a comrade can have fun recalling the names of all of the people who know Marx and his works down to the last detail, but who are Marxism’s worst enemies.

The Batrachomyomachia - Il Programma Comunista no. 10