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Marx’s Renaissance: Explaining the Growth of the Left in the UK and Beyond

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Vincent
Published date01 September 2018
DOI10.1177/2041905818796575
AuthorWilliam Horncastle
Date01 September 2018
26 POLITICAL INSIGHT • SEPTEMBER 2018
Marx’s Renaissance:
Explaining the Growth
of the Left in the UK
and Beyond
Marxism has been enjoying a resurgence in recent years. Why has
support for the left grown in the UK and abroad? And what role
does Marx and his writing play in contemporary left-wing politics?
William Horncastle investigates.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
was widely regarded as the
triumph of Western capitalism
over those of the Communist East.
Revolutions throughout Eastern Europe
signied that Marxism was a failed political
project, producing poverty and depression.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1992.
Francis Fukuyama in his seminal work,
The
End of History and the Last Man
, hailed
this moment as ‘the end of history’. Liberal
democracy promised freedom, equal
opportunities, and economic prosperity;
things that communism could not.
Fast forward almost 30 years and the
strength of these claims has crumbled.
Trade wars are ensuing between global
superpowers, the world has witnessed the
worst financial crisis in history, and political
and economic inequalities are rife. These
crises followed years of neoliberalism.
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