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The capitalist road: the riddle of the market from Karl Marx to Ben Okri.

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From: Quadrant
Date: 19980401
Author:Kukathas, Chandran

People outside American academic departments of English, history, politics, and sociology do not take arguments against Marxist economics seriously. Marxist economics is viewed as an embarrassment to analytical Marxists but some critics remain committed to the use of Marxist analysis tools to interpret texts and processes of their production.

It is capitalism which pitches every value into question, dissolves familiar life-forms, melts all that is solid into air or soap opera; but it cannot easily withstand the human anxiety, nostalgia and deracination which such perpetual revolution ...

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