Contemporary Marx.

The Marxian spirit does not manifest itself in the structure of an incessant flow. However, it emerges jointly with society’s call for responses, continuing to “haunt capitalism like ghosts”, as Jacques Derrida (1994), cited in Fuchs (2009, p. 371) has asserted.  Consequently, we find ourselves in the position of discussing about capitalism in terms of falsification, for, as Christian Fuchs (2009, p. 371) stressed: “its neo-liberal mode of development” has made the whole mapping of socioeconomic issues more complex and destructive than ever through the amplification of global problems.

           

Moreover, and reported to present day facts, market economy has generated the “global restructuration”; which is prophetically described by Marx and Engels (1987, p. 8):

The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country… it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground in which it stood.

Economist Prabhat Patnaik, cited in Le Blanc (2006, p. 39) has defined economy in terms of volatility, seeing as it confers globalization a distinctly biased character:

So not only in the sense that finance flows everywhere, but also in the sense that it is sucked out of everywhere … national economies become the plaything of speculative forces with nation-states being reduced to the role of helpless spectators.

Additionally, as Le Blanc (2006, p. 18) observes, Marx and Engels anticipated the circumstances in which the Iron Curtain would be overpowered by capitalist civilization:

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization.

In consequence, we can find that one of the central features of modern society- the globalization of capitalism- is broadly cultivated in the works of Marx and Engels, along with the Marxian theme of international cohesion.

References                     

Fuchs, C. 2009. Some theoretical foundations of critical media studies: reflections on Karl Marx and the media. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 369-402.

Le Blanc, P. 2006. Marx, Lenin, and the revolutionary experience: studies of communism and radicalism in the age of globalization. New York: Routledge.                  

Marx, K. and Engels, F. 1987. The communist manifesto. New York: Pathfinder Press.

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