Karl Marx’s Literary Style Was an Essential Part of His Genius Karl Marx wasn’t merely a great thinker who was also a glorious prose stylist. His brilliance as a writer was inseparable from his greatness as a thinker. Lithograph of Karl Marx, 1866. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) BY DANIEL HARTLEY Jacobin, 01.30.2023 Review of Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovico Silva, translated by Paco Brito Núñ..