Alan Kohler has a subtle and dry wit not appreciated by everyone. So, in replying to his suggestion that the exchange rate of the Aussie and US dollar repudiates socialism, I will continue his joke and pretend he’s serious.
Marxism
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Kohler’s Marxing to a different drum
Guy Rundle: Rundle: on Minchin, the green movement and Marxism
Understand this clearly – more people now believe the Red-Green hypothesis, that capitalism is a system testing us to destruction in its current form, than go with the idea that it is some empty charade of communism by other means.
China: Where did all the communists go?
The Chinese Communist Party may have 70 million members, but it’s hard to find a genuine Marxist amongst them, says Daniel Gross. Most are far more interested in prosperity than process.
Megalogenis: What The Communist Manifesto can teach us about Australia’s economy
George Megalogenis revisits his university “required reading” list and finds many of the predictions made in Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto have borne fruit in the Australian economy of today. Let the ruling classes tremble!
China’s new class struggle
As the influence of Marxism as the dominant ideology in China diminishes, so to does the sense of political equality between Han Chinese and ethnic minorities like the Uighurs. Could the recent riots turn into a new class struggle for China?
Marxism returns
The onset of the severe global economic downturn has undermined faith in the magic of the market and resurrected the spectre of socialism.
Letter from...: Berlin
On a typically sodden Berlin afternoon in late March, Ben Gook witnessed a protest in Germany’s capital.
Never mind the markets, capitalism has a crisis of faith
The trillion dollar packages haven’t worked, or the bank guarantees, but a suspension of disbelief might, an act of faith that the system can work again, writes Bernard Keane.
Why does everyone hate Germaine Greer?
You’re all defined by suburban mediocrity
