In my reading of Marxists, the goal of revolution is seizing control of the levers of the economy.
These are the people who counsel seizing control of state apparatuses. Nor would Soviet Russia count as a capitalist society that was seized.
According to people such as Althusser and several other Neo-Marxists, it's not that there are no other alternate systems. It's that capitalism is so thoroughly pervasive and entrenched that the world's whole way of life is gripped by it. In other words, alternative systems cannot displace it at the fundament. Look at China. From agrarian society and suddenly there's hypercapitalism there.
On Wall Street, the managers have been reading Karl Marx and passing around his books for the last decade or so. It's considered reading that will help you get ahead. The dunderheads used to read books like, "Who Moved my Cheese?", and now they've graduated to Marx. Which no doubt explains credit default swaps as well.
Well, I guarded against going back to Marx by writing about Neo-Marxists in the last 30 years.
The dunderheads used to read books like, "Who Moved my Cheese?", and now they've graduated to Marx. Which no doubt explains credit default swaps as well.
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep or touch not the Pyrian spring. -----Alexander Pope
