<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Following the discussion here about the left, this is my contribution on the theoretical weakness of today's marxists, published on spiked-online today:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"In the anti-war movement, young protesters reacting against the political leadership offered by Bush, Blair and Berlusconi meet older radicals thrilled to find a new audience for their well-rehearsed polemics against capitalism and imperialism. Theories of a capitalist crisis, giving rise to Great Power rivalries and the exploitation of the third world are being dusted off for a twenty-first century audience."</FONT><BR class=NetscapeDummy></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The assumptions that frame Marx's theory of over-accumulation, though, are less pertinent to today's economy.</FONT>"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>more:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <A href="http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA6BA.htm">http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA6BA.htm</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>