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Who Was Karl Marx?: The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today's Rampaging American Left
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Every modern Marxist needs to understand this Michael Hudson essay.
For the dogmatists out there, it doesn’t mean that Marx was “wrong.” It just means that capitalism is evolving differently today than it was during his era, and that some of the trends he noted in the 1800s have actually reversed themselves & started... See more
Mahmood Mamdani learned about Karl Marx from the FBI, who were investigating Mamdani because of his involvement in the black freedom struggle https://t.co/U3numb6qVN
Marx believed that the capitalist market economy was incapable of delivering an acceptable distribution of income for anything but the briefest of historical intervals. ...But "incapable" is surely too strong...[S]ocial democracy, progressive income taxes, a very large and well-established safety net, public education to a high standard, channels... See more
Noah Smith • Should economists read Marx?
