And I think there is a lot of truth to it.

我十分赞同这一点
The reason why I carry on and on and on with Marx,

我一直在课堂上不停地讲马克思
in this course, because my experience is that

是因为我的经验告诉我
many of us do have very simplistic stereotypes,

关于马克思其人和他的思想
in our mind, who Karl Marx was and what his theory is all about.

大多数人的脑海中都有一个刻板的印象
Well he was a creative scholar, a vibrant mind,

他是一个非常聪明而且善于变通的学者
who was ready to change his mind when

当他面对新的论争和证据时
confronted with new arguments or confronted with new evidence.

他总是乐于改变自己的想法
And there were many, many facets, many faces of Karl Marx.

同时马克思是一个非常多面的人
We have seen some of those. Right?

我们也已经了解到了
We have seen Marx, starting as a Hegelian idealist,

我们知道马克思最开始是黑格尔派的
being obsessed with the idea of alienation,

着迷于异化理论