> This strange, idolatrous determination to assume that every significant
> question must have an answer found in Marx or derived from Marx is
> really unfair to Marx, actually. He was brilliant but he was just one guy -
> who died 125 years ago! I suspect if Marx came back today the first
> thing he would want to do is learn all the stuff he missed after his death -
> Keynes, Veblen, Minsky, modern finance theory and growth theory, etc.
> (just talking about economics here). And once he discovered these things,
> the last thing he would want is for people to try pointlessly to cram all that
> stuff into the framework he set out in a bunch of books he had written in
> the 1850's and 1860's, racking their brains every day while reading the
> newspaper, trying to find a way to explain what's happening today through
> the lens of those now-ancient tomes. I mean, who does that?
Well said.