author of numerous books including age shock how finance is failing us and an unfinished revolution karl marx and abraham lincoln the crisis of capitalism sweeping the globe right now perhaps it's time to revisit marx had to say about economics one of the reasons why i'm pleased to welcome robin blackburn from our studios in new york city robin thanks for joining us tonight. thank you great to have you with us your book an unfinished revolution izzy in part history of the relationship between karl marx and and abraham lincoln i was blown away to discover there even was one that these guys had in correspondence can you tell us about that. it began with knox's big involvement with the united states. the newspaper the new york tribune he was signed up in about eight hundred fifty two to write articles for the for the tribune by. managing editor charles c. downer and he subsequently wrote about four hundred fifty articles for the tribune really long articles and the rates of one or even sometimes two a week across a period of nearly a decade so this was a major part of marx's activity and the inc

reasonably renewable power and that was a signature program of the new deal ridiculous to say inspired by karl marx but actually it was congress with is thought and of course america marxist did very much support the new deal however those who interpreted marx to mean that a command economy would work well have been disapproved and the soviet economy as we know collapsed but we see other countries like china have actually managed to bring about some sort of dramatic economic development and we find that forms of public entrepreneurial ism although in battle do still exist in china in china we find that the banks are still publicly and and we find the government carried out a very firm policy of stimulus on a much larger. the scale in the very timid policy here in the united states or in my own country in britain and so one can see that there is a an element of great economic radicalism in the and in other countries like taiwan brazil we find public entrepreneurial ism is an important part of the mix investments in high tech for example in taiwan's science parks or in brazil and then brought up the

karl marx said history repeats itself.s doing that now. >> a recent unicef study found whopping 80% of children in north korea are malnourished. part of the deal the u.s. is putting 240,000 tons of food aid. jon kyl blasted the white house for, this noting it's breaking a promise to not provide such incentives in exchange for what he called dubious commitments of cooperation. kyl adding, "i am deeply disappointed but not surprised by the aboutface. this is par for the course for administration with record of misleading congress and disregarding u.s. national security. while u.s. officials say north korea insisted the food aid be included one of many questions hanging over the field. including will the six party talk get resumed to find out whether or not the nuclear program will really get this handled. >> bret: thank you. stocks took a tumble today. the dow lost 53. the s&p 500 fell 6-1/2. the nasdaq dropped 20. gasoline went up a penny-and-a-half overnight. the national average is now $3.73 a gallon. coin settled over $1

it's you know karl marx there's there's this middle ground how do we define the parameters of that middle ground and you know well i guess that sticky question stands as it is. sure but when you start with the whole redistribution on point and then go to the the how do we how do we find that that balance and i guess it's only redistribution if you believe that the current distribution is justified if you believe that the world right now the top one percent controls more wealth than the bottom ninety percent combined are we to believe that the top one percent works that much harder than the bottom ninety percent of americans combined i think that that's a stretch and the reality is and one of the things we looked at we have a report that we've done in the past and we cite in this book called born on third base base which documents that a third over a third of the people in the forbes four hundred list were essentially born there and those that weren't born there were born well on their way to the list the reality is most of the people in the one percent were one percenters by birth or at l

i think it's that's where i am randoms and his eye color of the she is the issues that marks the karl marx of the radical right and so you know keeping that in mind you'll think it has government accountability office report that i just mentioned that shows us that. i forgot the exact number now some highlights but. so many of these banks were actually repaying the bailout money they got from the taxpayers by just taking money from other federal programs and every day i feel like i say it's just can't get any more outrageous yesterday we were talking about making america the fact that a whistleblower came out and said that they were actually not giving people their loan modifications and misleading them at the same time partaking in the government's program in hand and passing on just enough modifications that they can still let it slide and then have this report how much more outrageous can it get it's an absolute outrage and you know that's that's the irony here you know so that's the real irony here is that the bailout was necessary by the actions of the private sector by the banking in

mary gabriel, love and capital, karl and jenny marx to a birth of a revolution, john f.kennan an american life from penguin press. paul hendrickson, hemingway's book, everything he loved in life and lost, 1934 to 1961 from knoff, matting marible and ezra fogle. and the 2001 nbcc award and biography goes to john lewis gattis, george f. kennan, an american life. [applause] >> and i'll read the citation from marianne gwen who couldn't be with us tonight. george f. kennan an american life by john lewis gattis was an american dip plat who he is per rated and appalled his superiors. he never held high office and never loved the necessaries of the diplomatic trade. he's a distinguished yale historian again worked on this biography in 2002. his task ended 30 years later after kennan's death after 101 years old. a long biography. long life. he built a portrait of kennan as a with a soul of a -- i have temperament ill-suited for the -- he may have been unsuited to the diplomacy but it governed -- prevented world war 3 and both restricted and set the stage for the crumbling of the

landauo manhattan apartment including letters from abraham lincoln, ben judge min franklin, carl -- karl marx and fdr. he also had a paper by andrew jackson and a land grant. >> in terms of america, they are priceless. >> reporter: as part of his plea deal, landau must also try to reconnect the rightful owners with the objects. >> landau will be sentenced in may. >>> new polls show baltimore anians -- baltimoreans are split on the issue of gay marriage. survey for marriage equality say 52% say they will probably or definitely vote for the bill. but recent polls by gonzalez and the washington post put the issue much closer at 50-50. oppone epts -- opponents have until june to put the issue to a ballot. >>> get ready for some new taxes. the budget work is under way now in annapolis. and the senate budget and taxation committee is moving down the list. political reporter pat warren has more on what they've done so far. pat? >> reporter: that's right. just minutes ago, the budget and taxation committee approved a tax on smokeless tobacco and cigars included on the governor's proposal. and they're

but like many people interested in the ideas i was never the less drawn to the european thinkers, karl marx, as it met freud and most especially neitzsche. i moved on to graduate school and continued to find the top pretty intoxicating and i felt a little sheepish about my attraction to it. after all, had gone to graduate school to study american intellectual and cultural history. and so i felt compelled to turn back to my american thinkers ralph waldo emerson, margaret fuller, w.e.b. du bois, john, i thought it was time for me to find myself back on the american intellectual native ground. but in my effort to put neitzsche to the sight i can to discover how difficult it was going to be in that every american intellectual life especially in the american academy, in higher education the philosophies featured prominently in monograph, journals and university courses in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. there wasn't a university library or major bookstore that didn't have the section. but even as i waded out from the intellectual world of the academy, i was repeatedly flailed i

history, but like many people interested in ideas, i was nevertheless drawn to european thinkers; karl marx, emil dick heym, sigmund floyd and nietzsche, most especially nietzsche. after i moved on to graduate school, i felt a little sheepish about my attraction to it. after all, i had gone to graduate school to study american intellectual and cultural history. and so i felt compelled to turn back to my american thinkers, ralph waldo emerson, margaret fuller, w.e.b. duboise, john dewey. i thought it was time for he to find myself back on american intellectual native grounds. but in my effort to put nietzsche to the side, i came to discover how difficult that was going to be in contemporary and american intellectual life, especially in the american academy. nietzsche's philosophy figured prominently in scholarly monographs, journals, and university courses and all fields of the humanities and social sciences. there wasn't a university library or bookstore that didn't have a nietzsche section. but even as i widened out, i was repeatedly foiled in my efforts to move away from nietzsche and mov

that signaled the allocation of capital that the best of all ways was capitalism versus karl marx, versuse said over time you'll have more consumers coming into the global marketplace and the consumers in this particular case we hadn't focused on brazil but primarily china and india and having been in china in early 1981, henry kissinger's brother doing a trip, they had a habit of doing two things, drinking. went to hong kong or happy valley they knew they could do gambling so we were biased and didn't want to say everyone does that. we knew you'd have a growth in the marketplace and then you had this aspirational value so what was the top brand and what didn't you have that americans had? we do have that, but that meant that we had an analyst that goes out and visits the companies. guy in shanghai our beverage analyst in the united states, living there for the last five years. if you take tea he follows the tea companies. that's how it works. now a lot of those -- that was one example. beam is $56. is there a margin of safety in the stock, do we still want to own it? yes. will it be brou

i am assuming obama, because karl marx is not going to be on the ballot. we get a ton of our reporters' bias. i have worked "the wall street journal," most of them vote democratic. it is one thing we try hard on, to be down the middle. we do not get everything right, but it is important that republicans and democrats trust us. in washington we do not want anyone to like us because if we are doing our job, we are roughing you up. where feuding -- i do think for conservatives in the past, there are some legitimate concerns about too much liberalism in the mainstream media. i hope people come to poltico and check us up. i think being on the sly streams where you are listening to us for four hours, -- live at streams were you are listening to us for four hours, i would be surprised if you found a bias. >> if i could make two quick points. it is like a theme with every campaign. it is really interesting to watch as the media evolves and changes. at politico because we are so focused on the tactics of the campaign, almost like the campaign as a sport. we are mor