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Article: Karl Marx comes back - in an anorak
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 23, 1996
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A gruff and squinting bearded man is peering cautiously out
from behind his computer screen. Vilified for decades, blamed for
the countless atrocities carried out in his name, he has been
consigned by widespread agreement to the waste-paper basket of
history. Yet Karl Marx could be about to make a comeback.
If politicians and academics were to meet old uncle Karl today,
they might find they had more in common with him than they
expected. What with political leaders chattering about a classless
society, and economists trying to explain the huge technological
and social changes that are underway, there are Marxian echoes all
over the place.
To be taken seriously today, Mr Marx would have to ...