I’m not a Marxist, but he understood Capitalism better than we ever give him much credit for.
This is a partial quote from the book “The light Failed” by Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes regarding how the liberal ideal has been replaced by authoritarian kleptocracy elsewhere - and now in the US.
I’m not a Marxist, but he understood Capitalism better than we ever give him much credit for.
This is a partial quote from the book “The light Failed” by Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes regarding how the liberal ideal has been replaced by authoritarian kleptocracy elsewhere - and now in the US.
"Marx's final gift to the Soviet elites was persuading them not only that capitalism was designed for the predatory self-enrichment of a few but also that Western democracy was a shrewdly constructed system for maintaining class domination.
Democracy, viewed in this cynical light, had nothing to do with the accountability of politicians to citizens. On the contrary, the democratic illusion of accountability helped mask and preserve the autonomy of a political ruling class".
Substitute "pitiful billionaire technocrats" for "political ruling class" as you wish.
I’m not a Marxist, but he understood Capitalism better than we ever give him much credit for.
This is a partial quote from the book “The light Failed” by Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes regarding how the liberal ideal has been replaced by authoritarian kleptocracy elsewhere - and now in the US.
"Marx's final gift to the Soviet elites was persuading them not only that capitalism was designed for the predatory self-enrichment of a few but also that Western democracy was a shrewdly constructed system for maintaining class domination.
Democracy, viewed in this cynical light, had nothing to do with the accountability of politicians to citizens. On the contrary, the democratic illusion of accountability helped mask and preserve the autonomy of a political ruling class".
Substitute "pitiful billionaire technocrats" for "political ruling class" as you wish.