[Tailgunner Joe]

I was actually talking about the rest of the article.

"Gee, Socialism would have worked if we just did it right. It's a good idea in theory." {/com-symp}

Do you lump in Buchanan and others who oppose the WTO with the black anarchists and red commies who oppose globalism?

[Sawdring]

But the fact remains that on everything that mattered most to Marx himself, he was wrong. The real power he claimed for his system was predictive, and his main predictions are hopeless failures. Concerning the outlook for capitalism, one can always argue that he was wrong only in his timing: in the end, when capitalism has run its course, he will be proved right. Put in such a form, this argument, like many other apologies for Marx, has the advantage of being impossible to falsify. But that does not make it plausible. The trouble is, it leaves out class. This is a wise omission, because class is an idea which has become blurred to the point of meaninglessness. Class antagonism, though, is indispensable to the Marxist world-view. Without it, even if capitalism succumbs to stagnation or decline, the mechanism for its overthrow is missing.

The author lampoons Old Karl and his modern day supporters.