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21st Century Marx

29 mins | Jan 23, 2018

At different historical moments, Karl Marx has been reimagined as a revolutionary icon, a humanist skeptic, a guru-author. Terrell Carver, writing in Aeon magazine, wonders which Marx is being used by capitalism’s critics in the 21st Century.

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