for robin is a historian so sociologist and professor at both the new school university of new york and the university of essex in the united kingdom he's also the author of numerous books including age shock how finances failing us and an unfinished revolution karl marx and abraham lincoln let's go back to it robin marxian versus marxist what's the difference in these terms and what really you know in a modern context what how do these apply to today's economy. i think c.n.n. is used just as a slightly milder term with marxists being a sharper more demanding term. for those who closely followed marx's i idea is an amount since a little more loosely but i think in recent years there's been a renewed interest in marx's analysis of the trade cycle of boom and sun pundit capitalism and which he traced as being very often the result of over exploitation of the working class leaving them with not enough wages to buy goods and say you get what is called a realisation crisis a crisis of. overproduction with consumption not being strong enough to absorb all that has been produced and then the you get it built on top o