Are we all Marxists now? I hope not

The reductionist concepts touted by so-called ‘Marxist intellectuals’ may play well in social media or on TV, but have a limited connection to contemporary reality or the great philosophers.

Andrew Caddell writes that, of late, he has read online articles by so-called ‘Marxist intellectuals’ calling for the overthrow of the vestiges of colonialism, capitalism, and our system of government. Flickr photograph by Roger Jones

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

July 8, 2020

OTTAWA—In the fall of 1997, a friend sent me a copy of an article from The New Yorker magazine, called “The Return of Karl Marx,” by John Cassidy. The point of the article, written in the last years of a decade known for its avarice, was Marx was right: the materialist conception of h...

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