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Karl Marx’s Big Comeback

Meet the hot author of the New Depression.

Fashionistas of the New Great Depression may want to accessorize their potato sacks with a copy of Das Kapital. “Marx is in fashion again,” says a publisher in Germany, where The Guardian reports that Marx’s sales have recently risen 300 percent. Turns out that years after his supposed discrediting, some feel the old philosopher may have had a point. “Generally one has to admit that certain parts of Marx’s theory are really not so bad,” Germany’s finance minister told Der Spiegel—surely one of the most carefully hedged statements of all time.

Read it at The Guardian

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