"Today, the Economics departments that actually take Marx seriously are limited to a handful in the US (e.g. at UMass Amherst and The New School ), the UK (e.g. at SOAS ), India (e.g. at JNU ), Brazil, China, and in a few other countries scattered across the globe. Because of the Economics discipline’s lack of openness to alternative ways of thinking about Economics, studies by scholars from these departments will rarely make it into mainstream journals and students from these departments." Marx's birthday and the dismal science
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51