[Marxism] Karl Marx, "pioneer of modern thinking"

["Gilles d'Aymery" <aymery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does globalisation make Karl Marx a "pioneer of modern thinking"? The
question is tossed around in this issue by two indiviuals who are
convinced the answer is yes: English historian Eric Hobsbawm and
Jacques Attali, economist and former advisor to Francois Mitterand,
whose book "Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde" was published last year.
Hobsbawm finds a renewed interest in Marx entirely natural: "Today we
are seeing the globalised economy that Marx anticipated. Still, he
didn't foresee all of its repercussions. For example, the Marxist
prophesy whereby an increasingly numerous proletariat topples
capitalism in the industrial countries did not come about." Attali
comments: "The Socialist International was a remarkable attempt on
Marx's part to think the world in its entirety. Marx is an
extraordinarily modern thinker, because rather than sketching the
outlines of a socialist state, his writings describe the capitalism
of the future."

http://www.signandsight.com/features/801.html

http://www.lexpress.fr/info/quotidien/actu.asp?id=4154 (in French)

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