Are you a Marxist?

[buritobr]

Well, it depends. If it is necessary to support the soviet economic and political model to be a Marxist, I am not. But Marx passed away 34 years before the Russian Revolution, so, we don't know how would he think about the soviet model.

But I agree with Marx that the class fight is a big engine of the history, money is not only a tool to make easier the exchanges but also the goal of the accumulation, the surplus value is the origin of the profits in the capitalist economy and capitalism produces high concentration of income and wealth and cycles of growth periods and crisis.

[buritobr]

I feel that Karl Marx is more popular in the social science departments of federal and state universities in Brazil than in Germany (where he was born) and in England (where he wrote most of his books).
I had BA and MA degree in Economics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). I had to read many chapters of the 3 books of The Capital in the Political Economy class in order to understand Political Economy and not only to learn the history of the Political Economy. Many professors had a Phd degree in universities in the US or Europe and they told that they didn't see similar interest in Marx's work.