Re: Brilliant

If I were to 'nit-pick' I would say that I don't see how you can claim both that Marx is "indispensible" and that "We would have been far better off without him", but never mind. I don't think your analysis is a Marxian one, since you talk of 'global elites' but don't seem to acknowledge their most important characteristic as being capitalist; or at least you don't seem to. For example, you write as though the purpose of Brexit was to free my country from elites, which was certainly not the case, since it was supported and financed by a substantial section of the elites. The capitalists, as Ken Loach pointed out, were simply divided into two groups: those who were happy with the single market as it was, and those who saw opportunities in leaving the single market for eroding the welfare state, workers rights, and consumer rights still further. I would agree with you in preferring Erasmus to Luther. I like Distributism, but it is rather idealist and is not rooted in the material basis of society, so it is really quite utopian. This is why Marx truly is indispensible.