The World Is Flat and The Communist Manifesto
I bought The World Is Flat back in the fall of 2007 when I studied in Boston, but it has been collecting dust on my shelf until now. Although I’ve been familiar with the broader lines of what Friedman is discussing it’s quite interesting (and intense) to read the full “package”.
One fascinating thing so far (after about one third of the book) is how accurately the changes in the world up till today, brought about by capitalism, match the scenario described by Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto.
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx described capitalism as a force that would dissolve all feudal, national, and religious identities, giving rise to a universal civilization governed by market imperatives.
Not sure we’re turning communist anytime soon though…
