[lbo-talk] Is Fox news equating Obama with socialism, or worse yet...Marxism?

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Oct 17 12:23:54 PDT 2008


Hey, we're all Marxists, now, aren't we?

At least the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury thinks so: Face it: Marx was partly right about capitalism, writes Rowan Williams in The Spectator http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/the-magazine/features/2172131/face-it-marx-was-partly-right-about-capitalism.thtml

Meanwhile Channel 4 News' Krishnan Guru-Murthy had the people at the Economist in stitches when he told them 'they've sent Jon [Snow, his co-anchor] to America to laugh at the collapse of capitalism' http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5819/

And Canada's National Post thinks that the Bailout mark Marx's comeback: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/09/29/bailout-marks-karl-marx-s-comeback.aspx

And here's a finance writer in Lebanon making the same point: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=96382

A few years ago, Radio Four did a greatest thinker competition, and the winner was... Karl Marx.

Let's face it, the US mid-west, and East Europe must be the two places left where Marx is still reviled.



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