<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Interesting & informed, in spite of the weird identity-politics turn at the end: identity politics is the craven rejection of the class politics Marx thought and talked about.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>Marx meant to analyze capitalism (not socialism) in the (hidden) process of class struggles: “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles".</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Capitalism today has altered in two centuries, and Marx’ texts should not be used as Luther used the Letter to the Romans, as a source of timeless truths.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>But we probably can say of communism what Chesterton said of the Christian ideal - it "has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult; and left untried.” </div><div><br class=""></div><div>To pursue the matter, I’d suggest the following: <<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Marx-Right-Terry-Eagleton-ebook/dp/B07B52PT32/ref=sr_1_1" class="">https://www.amazon.com/Why-Marx-Right-Terry-Eagleton-ebook/dp/B07B52PT32/ref=sr_1_1</a>>. —CGE</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 30, 2018, at 11:04 AM, Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">From The New York Times:<br class=""><br class="">Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!<br class=""><br class="">Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo embody his critical spirit.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace-discuss mailing list<br class="">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>