Well it could be Karl Marx, except it is not his style, and he is dead.
It is an important point. It is one of the reasons why marxist influenced people need to face up to several paradoxes:
The development on from industrial capitalism, to imperialism, to the present system of finance capitalism operating in a global largely laissez faire terrain, is *progressive* because it is preparing the ground in some sense for socialism on a world wide scale.
Secondly, although international finance capital is our main enemy, it will be broken by a shrewd and determined programme of reforms, backed up by militant campaigners (whose actions are not entirely illusory) to use some sections, or some servants of finance capital, to tame it, and turn it into a more publically accountable system for managing the world's resources, in the interests of the people of the world. We need to capture, intellectually, and perhaps by bribery, some of these individuals who really know how the system works, and turn poachers into game keepers.
It is perfectly possible, even if not everyone is following the emerging script, which to some extent has to get written in the course of practice and struggle anyway.
Chris Burford
London