Marx on Life After Capitalism
b'Capitalism appears to many to be a failed system, leading to extreme inequality and ecological devastation. We\\u2019re also told that the alternative posed by Karl Marx is similarly bankrupt, as proved by the failures of state socialism.\\xa0 But what if Marx\\u2019s vision for a postcapitalist future has little in common with the experience of the Soviet Union and China? Peter Hudis argues that freedom \\u2014 including from a repressive state apparatus \\u2014 was central to Marx\\u2019s concept of life after capitalism.\\nPeter Hudis, Marx\\u2019s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism Haymarket Books, 2013\\n\\nThe post Marx on Life After Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.'