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Welcome back G. You will have to accept my apology, however, for I have not had time to check out those films you suggested. They are on my movie to-do list.

Marx has always recieved his fair share of criticism for his ability to slice and dice the veggies, but never produce a tasteful salad. Neo-Marxists tear him down at the other end of his critique - they say he too easily dismissed pre-capitalist societies as a source for understanding how Capitalism originated in the first place, and thus some of his fundamental assumptions of how the mechanisms of Capitalism work are also flawed. And, there is the notion to consider, that Marx envisioned collapse as a conscious push from the bottom of the Capitalist pyramid, not the result of bungling and rot at the top. His bourgeois, our middle class, is upset about and resisting collapse, instead of initiating it through a unified movement.

I think the ruling class and the ruled have become so dependent upon the market system, the former for control, the latter for survival, that it is hard for me to see engineered collapse as a desireable scenario initiated by either.