footnotes2marx

From the Communist Manifesto: "By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and the employers of wage labor."

Obviously these would be the people who would hate Marx and Marxists the most. However, strange as it seems Marx has become "fashionable" for the capitalists--who are heaping praises on him , while rejecting communism.

Take a look at the following:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1530250,00.html

But why is this bewildering development. Part of the answer lies in the above commentary itself:

The billionaire speculator George Soros now warns that the herd instinct of capital-owners such as himself must be controlled before they trample everyone else underfoot. 'Marx and Engels gave a very good analysis of the capitalist system 150 years ago, better in some ways, I must say, than the equilibrium theory of classical economics,' he writes. 'The main reason why their dire predictions did not come true was because of countervailing political interventions in democratic countries. Unfortunately we are once again in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions from the lessons of history. This time the danger comes not from communism but from market fundamentalism.

Capitalist thinkers have acknowledged there is a problem and crisis with capitalism today. So they are looking at new safety valves and measures. Marx, the proponent of a revolution against capitalism is being used as a safety valve icon--to safeguard the interests of capitalism and make it ever-perpetuating.

Marx had already lamented that if reformists of his times used his theories to propagate reform and reject revolution then he was not a Marxist. Imagine,what Marx would have done now--I am sure he would have burned his own writings.

The onus is on the true belivers of Marx to understand & implement the ideas of Marx correctly to augment the communist revolution and not to postpone it.