[Marxism] They like one-half of Marx

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"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."

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CB: When one reads Marx on "globalization", he seems , not to be
anticipating some future globalization, but describing the globalization of
the capitalism in his day and the era before. Marx's writings describe the
capitalism of his present. It's just that capitalism hasn't changed that
much. Today is a second phase of capitalist "globalization." Funny how all
these bourgeois pundits want to find Marx a half-prophet on profiteering.  (
Not to mention having amnesia about the Russian Revolution). They like his
recording the expansionist tendency of capitalism, but don't like the "half"
of him that predicts capitalism's end. Well, of course they don't like the
prediction of capitalism's end !

 As to Marx's prediction that capitalism will be overthrown by the working
class, there's plenty of time left in history for that prediction to come
about ,too. The two "parts" of Marx analysis are inextricable intertwined, I
hate to tell these declawed "Marxists". Marx didn't put a time limit on the
revolution. The defeat of the Russian Revolution doesn't mean there can
never be another revolution. In fact, it suggests there's likely to be
second Revolution, just like today we have a second "globalization". I mean
if there had never been a Marxist revolution, that'd be another story.But
there was so it is hardly the case that "he
didn't foresee all of its repercussions." The Russian Revolution was a
repercussion he forsaw and they forgot.



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