Alan Saunders explores the big questions and arguments; he looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy.

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2009-10-17 - What would Karl Marx think?

2009-10-17 - What would Karl Marx think?

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DATE : Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000
Entered in Database : 2009-10-16 14:00:00
length : 11809152
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Commodities, capitalism and computers. At a time when the Berlin Wall has fallen but Wall Street is decidedly shaky, a self-described lapsed Marxist takes us through some of the key philosophical and practical ideas of Karl Marx and argues for what is still useful today. What is worth keeping in Marx? He had his limitations but later thinkers have built on his core concepts and used his methods to produce results that still speak to the changing nature of work in contemporary Australia.

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