[PEN-L:33267] Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

["Tom Walker" <timework@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote,

> It is astonishing, for example, that the Economist can say:
>
> "Class war is the sine qua non of Marx. But the class war, if it ever
> existed, is over. In western democracies today, who chooses who rules,
> and for how long? Who tells governments how companies will be regulated?
> Who in the end owns the companies? Workers for hire--the proletariat."

Oh those proles, the lucky duckies: they own the companies, they tell the
government what to do, they choose who rules... and they don't even have to
pay taxes!

http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/12/19/boll/index.html?x

Could it be that the Wall Street Journal and the Economist have been
infiltrated by Onion satirists?

Tom Walker