Letter: Marx didn't want to explain society, he wanted to change it
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Your support makes all the difference.I Guessed the author of this piece would be an Oxbridge graduate and that this would be the latest recycling of an old ideological philosophy and there it was, a story from two Oxford graduates of the 1980s.
It is not Marx that needs a comeback but Keynes. We are currently in the self-fulfilling prophecy of monetarism - old-style capitalism - so of course Marx becomes the critique. But the graveyards are full of people who followed Marx and it is a sad reflection of the lack of thinking in Oxbridge that rarely does anything new come along.Thank God there are Redbrick graduates to do the legwork.
Peter Galpin
Oxford
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