Every time there is an economic crisis a section of mainstream economics tries to scandalize its followers by saying, in fact, we can learn quite a bit here from Karl Marx. And then the more farsighted or perspicacious or indeed edge Lord wing of mainstream economics will point out that this is hardly news. Did Marx and Engels fail to see how many provisional resolutions capitalism would manage to conjure up over time? Or maybe is it too soon to tell?
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