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MARXISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

The book dwells on the unrelenting rise of inequality due to the Left’s failure to change income distribution and benefit its working-class supporters

It is self-evident that incomes must be highly unequal under capitalism, a system that rewards owners of capital. The inequality was greatly reduced in World War II when countries at war were forced to tax the rich to fund their armies; once the war was

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