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The old boy's turning 200 in a few days (May 5), and this guy called Jason Barker, who has written a piece of historical fiction in which Marx is the protagonist, got an op-ed in the Times to celebrate:
Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right! https://t.co/iEPenRz6GC— Phony Cloud That Doesn't Exist (@Yastreblyansky) April 30, 2018
Right, this philosophy professor (in South Korea!) and novelist (https://t.co/8J1oUWZqCY) argues, in that everybody now knows the basis thesis, that capitalism is unsustainable over the long term, is correct. pic.twitter.com/KOJz1XrO14— Phony Cloud That Doesn't Exist (@Yastreblyansky) April 30, 2018
I'd add that since that 2002 statement the research of Piketty and Saez on longterm tax collection has demonstrated empirically that it's true, as continues to be corroborated https://t.co/6UeGKFbbGk— Phony Cloud That Doesn't Exist (@Yastreblyansky) April 30, 2018
Also gratifying to note somebody agreeing with me that Marx's work represents a definitive break with the Enlightenment, in his rejection of idealism for materialism, a leap comparable to Darwin's in natural science. pic.twitter.com/j9ln3QBTvj— Phony Cloud That Doesn't Exist (@Yastreblyansky) April 30, 2018
Communism is long dead, thank goodness, and there's not going to be a revolution, but Marx's critical spirit is alive, and more needed than ever, pic.twitter.com/KYfovsVjW1— Phony Cloud That Doesn't Exist (@Yastreblyansky) April 30, 2018
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