The Descent into Barbarism*

Feb 19th 2024, Prabhat Patnaik
In The Junius Pamphlet written from jail in 1915, Rosa Luxemburg had said that the choice before mankind was between barbarism and socialism. Liberal opinion would contest this, arguing that the barbarism that marked the two world wars and the period in between was unrelated to capitalism; indeed the liberal tendency that comes to the fore under capitalism, it would claim, fought against the barbarism of that period.
  
* This article was originally published in the Peoples Democracy on February 18, 2024.


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