Marxism is.....

"Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that  frames capitalism through a paradigm of exploitation, analyzes class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation."

[Source - wiki.]

Capitalism involves exploitation - but there is more to it than that. And what about the environment?
Social conflict is not all about class conflict. What about nationalism and religion?
Dialectical interpretations of history are quasi-mystical rubbish,

Did he? Does it?

Marx predicted the present crisis - and points the way out

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto

Did he? Does it?

The Communist Manifesto is 180 years old.
It was published across Europe 170 years ago in 1848.

Is it really true that it predicted the present crisis? Is it really true that it points the way out?
Is Marx still relevant to 2018?
Is people's allegiance to Marxism today an example of "cultural lag"?

Is class-based politics really still as relevant as this article affirms?
Was it ever as relevant as Marx thought it was?

I obviously think that Green politics is far more relevant to 2018 than any doctrinaire Marxism.
"People and Planet"!

Varoufakis writes that 
"The only thing we can be certain of, according to the manifesto, is that unless capital is socialised we are in for dystopic developments."

I agree with this totally.
I believe in social justice and the rule of the many rather than the few.
What I am not sure about is the continued relevance of articulating the quest for social justice as a conflict between "bourgeouisie" and "proletariat".

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