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[Marxism] Karl Marx on Front Cover of European ed. of Time mag
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- Subject: [Marxism] Karl Marx on Front Cover of European ed. of Time mag
- From: J Rothermel <jayroth6@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:53:49 -0500
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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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