Why I'm Still a Marxist: A Response to Tibor Rutar

Unlike many far more prominent critics of Marxism, Tibor Rutar knows what he's talking about. But do his criticisms land?

Earlier this summer, Tibor Rutar wrote an article for Areo magazine entitled, Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die. As you might expect, it contains very few complete sentences with which I agree.

That said, one reason I want to talk about Rutar’s article today is that it’s emphatically not the kind of “critique of Marx” that you consistently get from t…