If you had the chance to meet Karl Marx would you want to know what he would have to say about modern society? Howard Zinn's play, 'Marx in Soho', addresses Marx's ideology through a monologue that resurrects Marx and places him in modern day society in New York. In the play Marx poses the question: "Don't you wonder: Why is it necessary to declare me dead again and again?""
I attended this play at Calder Bookshop and was immensely taken with the acting by Daniel Kelly as Karl Marx. I asked him to give me an interview as 'Karl Marx':
What impact does the Communist Manifesto have on modern
society?
Not enough! Why
did Engels and I bother to write the Manifesto when so few get round to reading
it? It’s never been more relevant, more
urgently needed than now. It should be
compulsory reading in every school assembly!
You have come back 130 years later do you think the
people of the world are pleased to see you?
Yes, I think I’m becoming more and more popular as your
present crisis gets deeper and deeper. I
have something to teach the World, the question is does anyone want to learn
it?
Your predictions regarding Capitalism were astoundingly
accurate. How do you see the World in
150 years time?
If it’s not destroyed by wars or all the environmental
damage caused by capitalism then the World will surely have made it because the
capitalist system must then be dead replaced by a fairer system.
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P/S I think the answer to why Karl Marx keeps being declared dead is because the free marketeers have much to fear is Marxism were to become a revivalist organisation and mainstream again.
P/S I think the answer to why Karl Marx keeps being declared dead is because the free marketeers have much to fear is Marxism were to become a revivalist organisation and mainstream again.
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