[Marxism] Guardian: Booklovers turn to Karl Marx as financial crisis bites in Germany

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darren Cogavin :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/15/marx-germany-popularity-financial-crisis


Clip -- "Karl Marx is back. That, at least, is the verdict of
publishers and bookshops in Germany who say that his works are flying
off the shelves."

The rise in his popularity has of course, been put down to the current
economic crisis. "Marx is in fashion again," said JÃrn SchÃtrumpf,
manager of the Berlin publishing house Karl- Dietz which publishes the
works of Marx and Engels in German. "We're seeing a very distinct
increase in demand for his books, a demand which we expect to rise
even more steeply before the year's end."

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(smile)
The contradictions inherent in the movement of capitalist society
impress themselves upon the practical bourgeois most strikingly in the
changes of the periodic cycle, through which modern industry runs, and
whose crowning point is the universal crisis. That crisis is once again
approaching, although as yet but in its preliminary stage; and by the
universality of its theatre and the intensity of its action  will drum
dialectics even into the heads of the mushroom-upstarts of the new, holy
Prusso-German empire. 

Karl Marx
London
January 24, 1873
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p3.htm 







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