.@yanisvaroufakis: Marx and Engels’ answer to why we need politics is that "we cannot end this idiocy individually; [and] no market can ever emerge that will produce an antidote to this stupidity. Collective, democratic political action is our only chance"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto …
John Bellamy Foster: “Marx’s open-ended critique of capitalism, requiring that we struggle once more to probe into the historically specific system of capital accumulation at its deepest level — not simply to understand it, but in order to transcend it”https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/karl-marx-marxism-capital-political-economy …