Has anyone read "Why Marx was right" by Terry Eagleton?

[valdek]

It's an awesome book setting out to debunk several myths of Marxism which I highly recommended to anyone starting out with Marxism or just looking for a refresher...However. I set out to look for a review of the book so I could get a balanced viewpoint on the book and I came across this: libertarianpapers.org/articles/2011/lp-3-11.pdf

And it's stumped me, the argument is quite good...

[Dunk]

And it's stumped me, the argument is quite good...

Really? It comes across as regurgitated and offensively stupid to me.

Here are some highlights from this trash

1. "Yet any reader who is even half- competent in economics". My god. I wonder how old the author was when he or she came up with "Anyone who knows anything knows".
2. Equating central planning with "economic autism" as offensive as that sounds
3. Regurgitating the economic calculation debate
4. Enshrining Hayek and the like
5. First claiming Eagleton never sufficiently defines his terminology then later claiming his "socialist utopia" mode of production greatly resembles what we have today - I mean, seriously - talk about having your cake and eating it, too.
6. Equating the abolition of private property with slavery, and, as always, never turning the logic around to determine that if the ownership of private property equals freedom, then only the tiny minority have freedom, while the rest of us who work have something else entirely
7. "Was Marx right? If the Keynesian inflators and Bernanke have their way, Marx may indeed prove right in forecasting capitalism’s demise. But Marx would only prove right in that he predicted the fall of capitalism by its regression back into the doldrums of czarism." I don't ever remember reading Marx where he claimed that capitalism will fall once it "regresses" to something, especially a description of something as nebulous as "czarism".

Don't let superfluous language dazzle you into thinking he's said anything of substance.

[-marx-]

I have it in PDF, I've been reading it slowly.