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Markism Is Not What It Used to Be
David Frum's new book is an attempt to dismantle the idea of base and superstructure, he says. He argues that in a post coal war world there are no soviet unions or super power out there who can validate markist description of history. "You can just kind of make and remake your society however you want," writes Frum. But how do you scale it up to more complex societies with division of labor? asks Frum.