Two hundred years have passed since Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass, a pair of important 19th-century historical figures, were born.  Marx's collectivist ideas are surging among America's young, while Douglass, a champion of civil rights and the first black man to receive a nominating vote for president of the United States, sits largely unnoticed in pop culture.  The admiration lavished on Marx – whose communist ideology has led to hunger, misery, and tyranny wherever it has been implemented – should be accorded to Douglass, an iconic American scion of liberty. Marx was born May 5, 1818 to a middle-class family in the old Germanic kingdom of Prussia.  His father was an attorney, and his mother came from a prosperous business family.  Marx grew up in a ten-room home, received a private education, and married a wealthy heiress.  He never held a real job, living off his benefactors (those being his wife Jenny,...(Read Full Article)