"It is eminently possible that capitalism can and will adapt itself to death," he says. Trotsky said 90 years after the manifesto that Marx and Engels would be astonished by the adaptability of capitalism. "I think it takes quite a lot of gymnastics to pretend that they're not making those claims."
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