Despite the openly declared attacks on world capitalism, I have heard no
reports yet of pictures of Marx among the demonstrators at Seattle.
Perhaps his followers have not done enough to link the law of value with
global economic conditions.
Marx himself suggested a more insidious and unconscious process of
revolutionary development in the 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.
Today the mole is digging away vigorously within 10 years of the fall of
the Berlin Wall.
"But the revolution is thoroughgoing. It is still traveling through
purgatory. It does its work methodically. By December 2, 1851, it had
completed half of its preparatory work; now it is completing the other
half. It first completed the parliamentary power in order to be able to
overthrow it. Now that it has achieved this, it completes the executive
power, reduces it to its purest expression, isolates it, sets it up
against itself as the sole target, in order to concentrate all its
forces of destruction against it. And when it has accomplished this
second half of its preliminary work, Europe will leap from its seat and
exult: Well burrowed, old mole!"
Chris Burford
London
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