Tag: Revisit Marx’s Ideas

NOVANEWS By Dan Falcone, Truthout | Film Review (Photo: Wikipedia) With rising inequality in the US, and increasing under Donald Trump, there's a pressing need for a new economic system. Recently, in discussion with sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, Professor Marcello Musto indicated how, "for three decades, neoliberal policies and ideology have been almost uncontested worldwide [and that] almost everywhere around the world, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Marx's birth, there is a 'Marx revival.'" Musto argues that "returning to Marx is still indispensable to understanding the logic and dynamics of capitalism." Some of the most famous words in history are the words of Karl Marx: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle." Marx was a German...