> And I think it is fair to say that this mode of thought is deeply
> rooted in the writings of Karl Marx, who spent so much time
> denouncing private ownership of the means of production as a blocker
> of human liberty
Heiner Mueller, the Ueberdissident of the Eurostate, once said to an interviewer that the end of the Eastern bloc meant the end of a seventy-year attempt to disprove Karl Marx (Marx being, as we know, a radical democrat and keen admirer of the many virtues of capitalism).
I'm still waiting to hear about how the 4 billion people in the Third World are supposed to compete head-on with the likes of Microsoft and Mitsubishi without the benefit of those tenacious, clever developmental states that the IMF is doing its murderous best to annihilate. Or is neoliberalism just another word for roadkill capitalism?
-- Dennis