I was not surprised to learn that
Karl Marx gets a bad rap.
- Marx understood capitalism.
- He was impressed by its vigor: total wealth produced
- He was distressed by distribution of the excess profit.
- He assumed this could not be modified and justified revolution.
He was cancelled: his ideas declared heresy.
His cancellation cost us greatly since Marx' Capital is as fundamental to capitalism as Darwin's Origin is to biology. For more than a hundred years, the scientific capitalist west has ignored Capital and tools it contains which might improve governance. Ideas verboten because of Marx' cancellation. Truth cannot be cancelled.
We are now entering a time, where we can no longer afford to endure the effects of unbridled capitalism. Chomsky explained Marx' cancellation as a consequence of the Manufacturing Consent. We must overcome this process and apply the tools of Marx, if we are to save our planet while addressing problems that drove Marx' followers to revolution.
