Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Great Regulars: Why might Marx be back on the agenda?

The answer, ironically, is because of capitalism. Whenever you hear capitalists talking about capitalism, you know the system is in trouble. Usually they prefer a more anodyne term, like "free enterprise." The recent financial crashes have forced us once again to think of the setup under which we live as a whole, and it was Marx who first made it possible to do so. It was The Communist Manifesto which predicted that capitalism would become global, and that its inequalities would severely sharpen.

from Terry Eagleton: The Chronicle Review: In Praise of Marx

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