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We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. It is also encyclopaedic in its treatment of the history of marxist thought and that of the fellow travellers. Denotes open access content and free content editorial perspectives. Google scholar desai, meghnad, 2002b, democracy and development. The resurgence of capitalism and the death of statist socialism is a 2002. For anyone trained as a materialist and a marxist, this is just not possible. In marxs revenge, meghnad desai proposes the startling thesis that marx would support the current phenomenon of globalization. According to desai, a truly socialist society can develop only when capitalism exhausts itself as a creative and progressive force. Capitalisms restless quest for profit is so dynamic that it is compelled.
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