[Marxism] Karl Marx on Front Cover of European ed. of Time mag

[J Rothermel <jayroth6@xxxxxxx>]

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1873191_1873190_1873188,00.html
 
excerpt:

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009


  Rethinking Marx

By Peter Gumbel

The book has been on the best-seller lists in Germany for nine weeks, 
and in the provincial town of Trier it has special resonance, especially 
in tough economic times. It's Marx's /low>Das Kapital/, and dozens of 
copies of it are laid out in the bookshop in Trier's pedestrian-only 
town center. But no, this is not the seminal 19th century work on 
political economy by Karl Marx, who was born in Trier in 1818. It's a 
book by Reinhard Marx, the former Roman Catholic Bishop of Trier who is 
now Archbishop of Munich and Freising. He cheekily borrowed the title 
for his own thesis, namely that today's troubled economy needs to 
reconnect with fundamental Christian values if it is to be restored to 
health.

The book's introduction is a letter to Reinhard's celebrated namesake in 
which he rejects revolutionary Marxist solutions. Nonetheless, as he 
surveys the wreckage of the global financial system and the growing 
insecurity of ordinary people, the Archbishop wonders: Was Marx's 
critique of capitalism right after all? "It lasted longer than you 
expected back in the 19th century," he writes, "but could it be that 
capitalism is just an episode of history that will end at some point 
because the system will collapse as a result of its internal 
contradictions?"

(See pictures of the Bolshevik October Revolution 
<http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1681193_1481200,00.html>.)
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