Marx, prophet of globalization

[Joe R. Golowka]

From: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org>
> At 18:19 09/09/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >[From Britannica.com]
> >
> >Marx in the Mirror of Globalization
> >
> >By Peter Hudis, special to Britannica.com - Sept. 5, 2000
>
> Its position in the Encyclopaedia Britainnica shows a new level of success
> in polishing marxist ideas and representing them in an acceptable form.
> Note that appears to be one without too much overt class conflict but
> rather in such a fashion as to excite the intellectual curiosity of the
> intelligentsia.

I have heard that the website is actually run by a radical.


> Still a bridge head is a bridgehead.
>
> I see from search engines that Peter Hudis has authored an editorial in
> News and Letters against the Kosovo war.
>
> Presumably he is known personally to some members of this list.

Yep.


> One specific question from the article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
>
> >  Marx opposed centralized state control of the economy
> >(he called those who advocated it "crude and unthinking communists")
>
> Where did Marx say this, anybody?

I'll ask.

Joe R. Golowka
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