Tag: The Capitalist World Turns

NOVANEWS by DAVID ROSEN Photo Source Nick | CC BY 2.0 One can only wonder what Marx, let alone Lenin, would think of the current nature of global capitalism.  It has realized their worst nightmares, becoming a system of tyranny and plunder but without a redemptive, revolutionary dialectic. The radical left has for the last century-and-a-half been guided by Marx’s analysis – and utopian vision – of capitalism, its inherent contradictions and its inevitable supersession by “communism”. That the proletariat could – and would! – overturn the bourgeoisie and the economic system of commodity exchange would be superseded by a world based on social equality, shared wealth and ecological harmony — from each according to his/her ability to each according to her/his need. Does anyone still be...