The Next Marx? By John Feffer

31 January 2012 — World Beat

marx-large.jpgLenin graces the cover of a recent issue of The Economist. The Financial Times is running an entire series on the “crisis in capitalism.Francis Fukuyama, a recovering neoconservative, makes a plea in Foreign Affairs for the left to get its intellectual act together. And that noted class warrior Newt Gingrich has been assailing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for being a ruthless moneybags.

Excuse me? Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? What parallel universe did we all just stumble into?

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