Marx becoming relevant again: Tariq Ali

[jdhoch]

"Marxism is one of the things people are reading now. I know of universities in the US where the students have formed Marxist Study Circles to understand capitalism," Ali, who is based in London, told reporters here.
Marx is "bestseller in Europe again because young people are talking about him", said Ali, 68, who was in India to release a short biography of progressive Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
According to him, Marxism in the genre in which it existed in Russia and China has gone.
"...And that is a not a bad thing… It did not actually educate the party members and allow them to think critically so that it could create a social layer that could think, which Marx was all about. That was a foolish way of developing a political organization.
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http://www.systemiccapital.com/marx-becoming-relevant-again-tariq-ali/

[Veovis]

Marx never stopped being relevant. Maybe his popularity swings up and down, but we've been in the same capitalist system since he first started writing about it.

[Prometeo liberado]

I was waiting for the part where Tariq takes his usual swipe at the former Soviet Union. Having said that, yes Marx is popular once again ,and the bourgeoisie media have countered by putting questionable "Marxists' like Sam Webb on T.V. When will the left learn to knock off the bullshit and get in front of opportunities like this?

[TomVine92]

Marx is shockingly relevant today, and much of his work (albeit sometimes outdated, understandably) can be applied directly to today's system.

But was he right about an uprising? Time is running out!

Was Kautsky right in saying we've moved into a period of ultra-imperialism? This theory is seemingly more relevant at the moment.