The Right-Wing Economics That Got Us into This Mess Should Go the Way of Soviet Communism

By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Posted on December 26, 2008, Printed on December 26, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/114999/

The collapse of Communism as a political system sounded the death knell for Marxism as an ideology. But while laissez-faire capitalism has been a monumental failure in practice, and soundly defeated at the polls, the ideology is still alive and kicking.

The only place you can find an American Marxist these days is teaching a college linguistic theory class. But you can find all manner of free market fundamentalists still on the Senate floor or in Governor's mansions or showing up on TV trying to peddle the deregulation snake oil.