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Branko Milanović's criticism of the Marxist left makes no sense

Branko Milanović's criticism of the Marxist left makes no sense

Another episode of broad-brush criticism that ends with the implicit "not me, though"

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Carl Beijer
Oct 17, 2023
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Branko Milanović is one of the world’s foremost scholars on inequality. Most of his career can be understood as a campaign to reduce it: “a more equal world,” he writes, “remains a salutary objective.” He has also acknowledged “the inescapable influence of [Karl] Marx on my work”; and yet in a new article for Unherd, Milanović insists that according to …

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