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The Living Red
24th February 2009, 19:21
I was in a seminar the other week and someone mentioned that Marx predicted or estimated an emergence of a radical right-wing free marketeer movement designed to try and 'save' capitalism from ruin/collapse. To me, it sounds a bit like the Thatcher-Reagan 'revolution'.

I may have got this completely wrong but if Marx did say/write something like this, perhaps someone could direct me to the text in which it is? I'd also like to hear thoughts on the topic generally.
GracchusBabeuf
25th February 2009, 22:55
I may have got this completely wrong but if Marx did say/write something like this, perhaps someone could direct me to the text in which it is? I'd also like to hear thoughts on the topic generally.So what if he did predict this? Is he on the same level as Nostradamus now?
Coggeh
25th February 2009, 22:58
I was in a seminar the other week and someone mentioned that Marx predicted or estimated an emergence of a radical right-wing free marketeer movement designed to try and 'save' capitalism from ruin/collapse. To me, it sounds a bit like the Thatcher-Reagan 'revolution'.

I may have got this completely wrong but if Marx did say/write something like this, perhaps someone could direct me to the text in which it is? I'd also like to hear thoughts on the topic generally.
Marx never "predicted" as it were , he used scientific analysis to determine the course of capitalism . To which he has been proven right again and again.
AvanteRedGarde
26th February 2009, 07:45
Marx never "predicted" as it were , he used scientific analysis to determine the course of capitalism . To which he has been proven right again and again.

That sounds just as ridiculous a "predicting." In fact, many of Marx's "predictions" were, in fact, wrong.
Plagueround
26th February 2009, 09:51
That sounds just as ridiculous a "predicting." In fact, many of Marx's "predictions" were, in fact, wrong.

While I don't mean to sound dogmatic (because I really, really can't stand when people make Marxism into a psuedo-religion), it is entirely possible we have not yet seen the conditions or events that will bring about what Marx predicted would happen. I don't think anyone expects everything the man said to be 100% correct, but I am curious as to what predictions you think he was wrong about?