Í dag byrjar Marxistiskur festivalur í London og eingin hevur grett orð um tað. Hvørki miðlar ella Atlantsflog. The Guardian hevur hugvekjandi tíðargrein um gamla Marx og nútíðar Kina, har arbeiðarin tryggjar at kapitalisman kann halda sær á floti og reiðiliga tað: Today, 164 years after Marx and Engels wrote about grave-diggers, the truth is almost the exact opposite. The proletariat, far from burying capitalism, are keeping it on life support. Overworked, underpaid workers ostensibly liberated by the largest socialist revolution in history (China's) are driven to the brink of suicide to keep those in the west playing with their iPads. Chinese money bankrolls an otherwise bankrupt America. The irony is scarcely wasted on leading Marxist thinkers. "The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives de-localised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organi