Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’: Still Relevant After 150 Years!

Sometimes people think that  because Marx’s predictions about socialism were wrong, that implies understanding his criticisms of capitalism are not worth bothering about. This is a grave mistake. His descriptions of the concentration of capital, its globalization and the fetishization of commodities are more true now than they ever have been. What Marx didn’t anticipate is the extent to which finance capital would get out of control.

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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