might be a much happier people if we organized our businesses very differently and took a page from karl marx who talked about this. if it seems like we don't even have the language to begin the conversation i was reading an article today. that was recently published in the washington post with the title headline something to the effect of capitalism comes to cuba and the article was about how capitalism is coming to cuba and castro is going to allow capitalism in is this fascinating and then buried in the article the actual decree or document or whatever that the cuban government put out was guidelines for creating collectives and so it appeared to me from reading the article and i'm no authority on what's going on in cuba i'm actually would like to get down there and do some work for that for the next book that i'm writing but my understanding is that it's not capitalism that they're bringing to cuba it is this kind of what's the word for it is a collectivism. yeah it is the it's an interesting thing i read these articles all the time. for example in the new york times in which capitalism i

little more sophisticated notion marxian theory is one hundred fifty years old it was started by karl marx the middle the last the nineteenth century in the period from then in about eight hundred sixty years or so until today little over one hundred seventy years of the growth of this tradition has been phenomenal and it's grown faster on a global scale and christianity or islam or anything else ever did so that now we have marxian theorists and newspapers and organizations and parties in every country on the face of the earth it's a stunning demonstration that there must be something going on in this realm way of thinking that has attracted an awful lot of people and the basic ideas are not complicated not surprisingly when capitalism emerges in europe a couple hundred years ago three hundred years ago it had the people who loved it and who celebrated it names like adam smith and david ricardo and and all that we've learned in school but it also had like every other era in human history people who were critical who thought that society could do better than this particular economic system

england at present is everybody's future is something karl marx said. what you realize when you learn about the history of england, it is a very peculiar country in a number of ways that i will explain and to expect other countries to replicate england's modernization path is highly unrealistic and in fact in my view it was china--china did not establish the first state. that happened a lot of places in egypt and mesopotamia and the valley of mexico but in my view the chinese establish the first modern state. modern meaning not based on hiring cousins and friends to run the government but based on civil service examinations, rational bureaucracy progress little centralized administration. they did this in the third century b.c. and is a historical achievement that i think a lot of people have not adequately recognized. instead of starting with england or greece and rome and going through the rise of democracy, it made more sense to start in china. china created the first modern state. why are other societies different? that is the basic background. ther

freight businessmen and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu john karl marx you know. and the fourth man i'm a network is none other than the then president of somalia. in one thousand nine hundred five a former president monti appoints a oney honorary consul to scuttle only makes full use of his depth of magic status to set up the toxic waste scam ignores the fact that in one thousand nine hundred three international treaty for peds the export of dangerous waste materials from europe to the third world. scud leoni turd northern italian industrial complexes it went from door to door like a common salesman to any industry that needed to rid itself of toxic waste. its destruction is expensive and the offer to do the job on the cheap. among the industrial lists geiger loney called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the turin region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. said they were looking for people who had a way to get rid of its workers earlier yes the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill the ship. and i wou

and it's all responsibility now to look at ideology and see how we can use it so he may maybe like karl marx spread his ideology of communism then passed away and later we had led in trotsky's talent wherever. that how you know not a comparison. is look there is this is dangerous absolutely i think there's a lesson from more than seventy years i absolutely but you also have to understand is that i think what we have been able to do and particularly the voices of of al qaeda are slowly starting to you know slowly slowly starting to be reduced and particularly i think if you look at what's happening in the arab world and many of the young generations that are coming up they're not talking about radicalism they're not talking about militant islam but what they're really talking about is liberal ideas of freedom and democracy and things like that so this i think is the greatest defeat of al qaeda that all these young generations are talking about other things rather than what bin laden and his you know minions were talking about . bin laden was a very pretty rich guy and he was a member of a ric

karl marx called it the new man.the idea is in order for communism to work you would have to have a human being with a brand new nature, one who renounces all privacy, who renounces all intimacy, all special less about friends, family and so on and who looks on the entire human race as his or her brother or friend which is in my view totally impossible, a dangerous dream. it is as if you try to take a practicing jazz band just blowing at having a good time and blow it up into the world orchestra. it doesn't work. a lot of people are sympathetic because in certain very limited contexts like a convent were kibitz or commune or intimate fraternity or sorority these kinds of relations are at least partly manifest and very enjoyable if you get the right crowd. if you don't have the right crowd like in the mafia you are not going to enjoy it that much. communism is favored by a lot of people as an impossible dream. anybody who has ever tried it, anyone who has come even your it will tell you it is much more likely north ko

distortion, and it's one that's been taught still in a lot of the discourse that really begins can karl marx as the present england. this is what you realize when you learn something about the history of england is that it is a very peculiar country in a number of ways i'll explain to you, and to expect other countries to represent england's modernization path i think is highly unrealistic, and, in fact, in my view, it was china, not -- china did not establish the first state. that happened in a lot of places in egypt in the valley of mexico, but the chinese established the first modern state, modern meaning not based on hiring your cousins and friends to run the government, but based on rational bureaucracy and central administration. they did this is in the third century bc. it's an amazing achievement that a lot of people have not adequately recognized and instead of starting with england, or, you know, greece and rome, the magna carta, it made more sense to start with china. that's the basic background. now, there are three important baskets of political institutions that we need to thin

to remember that the going form of communism, the live option that was essentially initiated by karl marx and frederick engels in their little book called "the communist manifesto," that political philosophy requires that we achieve a form of humanity which is brand new. marx called it the new man. the idea is that in order for communism to work, you would have to have a human being with a brand new nature, one who renounces all privacy, one who renounces all intimacy, all specialness about friends, family and so on and who looks upon the entire human race as his or her brother or pal or friend. which is, in this my view, totally impossible, a dangerous dream. it's as if you tried to take a practicing jazz band that are just sort of blowing and having a good time and blow it up into the world orchestra. it doesn't work. a lot of people are sympathetic because in certain very limited contexts like a convent, a kibbutz, a commune, an intimate fraternity or sorority these kinds of relations are at least partly manifested. and they're very enjoyable if you get the right crowd. of course, if y