The Rise of Millennial Socialism

Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman
Updating his 1976 triptych on the Main Currents of Marxism in 2005, the philosopher Leszek Ko?akowski predicted that Marx himself would become more and more what he already is: a chapter from a text book of the history of ideas, a figure that no longer evokes any emotions, simply the author of one of the great books' of the 19th century one of those books that very few bother to read but whose titles are known. That assumption seemed credible then. But one consequence of the financial crash of 2008 has been the intellectual rehabilitation of Marx. Outside academic...