From Marx

Was Simmel a Marxist or a Martian?

I don't think he was either. Yet he inspired some of our favourite Marxists and Martians, such as Georg Lukacs, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer.

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Socialist Kitsch

A. Could you suggest some recipes for the socialist kitchens of the future?

B. No, I'd rather not.

Not Marx but Cornelius Castoriadis's On the Content of Socialism.

marxist economics in the present day?

some problems </br> 1. shareholder system, where prole-level workers come to own a piece of capital and thus have a stake in the system. i.e. the disappearance of the proletariat? </br> 2. rent vs capital. the rising importance of branding and advertising, the taking into account of comparative advantage and disadvantage, such that capital is no longer the determining factor in production.