Pop Bourgeoise Culture on Marx

[RedMaterialist]

Here's a column from Rolling Stone (1-30-14):

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/marx-was-right-five-surprising-ways-karl-marx-predicted-2014-20140130

[PhoenixAsh]

Well...it is nice to see Marx reduced to some economic Nostradamus who forms a handy reverence guide for how to humanize capitalism.

Especially nice to read that the US combats income inequality through a progressive tax system. :rolleyes:

But it helps to bring Marxian theories back into a broader spot light I guess. Maybe people will expand from that.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Marx always tends to get a little media bump in downturns. Wasn't too bad; no such thing as bad press and all. You sorta miss the point of Marx if you say his criticism of capitalism is accurate but are more concerned with what will replace capitalism instead of who IMO. Fun read though.

[Criminalize Heterosexuality]

But it helps to bring Marxian theories back into a broader spot light I guess. Maybe people will expand from that.

Honestly, every time I have heard the term "Marxian", it referred to some kind of Bernstein-lite professor who presented some sort of "economic analysis" gutted of all political content. I'm not sure it's useful if such theories are in the spotlight.

I mean, take this article - if this was someone's first exposure to Marx, they would get the idea that Marx opposed capitalism because it destroyed Ma and Pa shops.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Well...it is nice to see Marx reduced to some economic Nostradamus who forms a handy reverence guide for how to humanize capitalism.

Especially nice to read that the US combats income inequality through a progressive tax system. :rolleyes:

But it helps to bring Marxian theories back into a broader spot light I guess. Maybe people will expand from that.

It is pretty telling of the poor state of the left if we need Rolling Stone magazine to put Marx back in a broader spot-light. Considering how we have not gotten much further since the start of the crisis, and as Jimmie Higgins noted Marx usually gets a few mentions during downturns (I would say we are in a crisis and not just a cyclical downturn but that's a whole other discussion), it perhaps is time to step up our own game if we want people to be 'exposed' to Marxism instead of expecting that people will expand from an article in Rolling Stone magazine(which mostly consists of distortions of Marx).

[Comrade Jacob]

God, I hate it when non-Marxists talk about Marx, they act like what they are saying is profound. They just look ignorant.

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

God, I hate it when non-Marxists talk about Marx, they act like what they are saying is profound. They just look ignorant.

Obviously only the purest of the purest of marxists can say anything about the guy...