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In 2007, an economic crisis immobilized America and spread quickly across the world.

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Millions lost their homes and jobs

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To save the international financial system, the government released millions of dollars

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triggering a wave of indignation.

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We begin to ask ourselves, perhaps it wasn't the economy, but rather Capitalism itself which was the cause.

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We're bankrupt, that we know

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But at the same time, we don't want to believe that everything can fall apart.

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Is Capitalism in the process of self-destructing and taking with it the Planet's riches?

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It's completely idiotic

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Capitalism doesn't destroy riches, it creates it.

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Karl Marx and the criticism of Capitalism is coming back with great force today.

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In Berlin, the old thinkers have been rejuvinated

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Adapting "Capital" on the spot

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it's a crazy idea

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The success of this spectacle is very surprising

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and even totally unexpected

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The riches of the capitalist society

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come

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from a gigantic accumulation of merchandise

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Marx, he could help us out a lot

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But how can the Marxist criticism help us understand

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these baffling times after the crisis

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The question is knowing what

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Where does this infatuation with everything Marx touches come from?

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Did we not think that he would die-out with the fall of the wall,

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20 years ago?

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What we've definetly pushed to the side

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is the idea of a revolutionary dictator of the proletariat.

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Have we been living in a dream?

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And if our capitalist world was, in reality, an ideological illusion

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which should be replaced by this communism

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which we've thought was indeed buried.