Why aren'r we demanding real change following the collapse of the economic system? Andy Beckett on The Guardian has a view

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• • Andy Beckett
  • The Guardian, Monday 17 August 2009
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Surprisingly, perhaps, the mood at Marxism 2009 was animated rather than feverish. Photograph: Frank Baron

It is a rare sunny summer morning and I am on the bus from Stoke Newington to Bloomsbury in central London. In these old, slightly earnest parts of the capital, leftwing politics runs deep: from Karl Marx writing in the British Library to communes in the 70s to today's dogged socialist flyposters. This morning's bus ride does not disappoint. Seated in front of me, en route to Marxism 2009, the pre-eminent British gathering of the international radical left, are a clean-cut man and woman in their early 20s. He is wearing a crisp new T-shirt that reads "Revolución Bolivarana". She has a large rucksack. They are speaking German, but the word "socialism" recurs.

The papers today are full of the recession as usual. On the Today programme, David Cameron has been talking about emergency cuts in government spending, and a union leader has been fiercely defending the wages of public sector workers. It could almost be the heady days of the mid-70s, when capitalism seemed to struggle for breath and all political bets appeared to be off.

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My view - two questions -

1) just what will wake people up?

2) how can real deep-down, social justice be achieved?

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