Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.
Compared to what? Capitalist societies have produced the highest and most widespread standard of living the world has ever seen. Communism produced gulags, genocide, starvation, and corrupt ruling elites.
On that basis, we are destined to keep citing him and testing his ideas until the kind of society that he struggled to bring about, and that increasing numbers of us now desire, is finally realized.
Ignore evidence to the contrary and follow dogma.
> Even liberal economists such as Nouriel Roubini agree that Marx’s conviction that capitalism has an inbuilt tendency to destroy itself remains as prescient as ever.
Compared to what? Capitalist societies have produced the highest and most widespread standard of living the world has ever seen. Communism produced gulags, genocide, starvation, and corrupt ruling elites.
> On that basis, we are destined to keep citing him and testing his ideas until the kind of society that he struggled to bring about, and that increasing numbers of us now desire, is finally realized.
Ignore evidence to the contrary and follow dogma.
Compared to what? Capitalist societies have produced the highest and most widespread standard of living the world has ever seen. Communism produced gulags, genocide, starvation, and corrupt ruling elites.
Ignore evidence to the contrary and follow dogma.