Marx: Back by popular demand

[Khan]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4981065.ece

I was going to post this in The Financial Crisis Explained but thought it might as well do with its on topic. It seems that after the success of the reunions of Led Zeppelin, Take That and the Spice Girls, Karl Marx has felt the time as right to go back on tour with his original line up. You can expect to see all your favourite hits: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto and A Stairway to Communism. Coming soon to a book shop near you!

[Caid Ivik]

So in the end all the '89 revolutionary ideas will be reversed. We should have listen to Russians...

[gunner154]

I have a feeling Economics lectures in universities would be getting tweaked pretty soon...

[Egeides]

Until lectures are tweaked otherwise ("again"). Sorry, I am being critical. This jumping around puts some things which are taken for granted at risk, and I think this has to do with a big picture.

[exatreide]

Great News Comrades!

[Dunenewt]

Hmm...if you were in my lectures, you'd never hear 'Marx: back by popular demand'.  His ideas are so vague in reference to my area of study, which means several people built on his ideas in different ways (Gramsci et al), which leads to an incredible amount of lecture notes.

[Egeides]

It's caracteristic of Marx and some others to be reinvented and rehashed in 1000 different ways (I think some like the ideas, figure it doesn't work, and try another way to make it work :P). Marx is himself quoted for saying that he disagreed with Marxists.

Dunenewt: Where to you end up studying Gramsci? I thought I had understood you were into linguistics but I guess there's more

[Dunenewt]

I'm a Social Scientist, but I also study French and German.

[Anathema]

I wonder what ol' Marx would have thought about subprime lending practices...