I don't have a complete link to the piece, but everyone should buy the new *n + 1* and read their "Intellectual Situation". It is really quite good.

Issue Eight: Recessional | n+1

Source: www.nplusonemag.com

Marxism has a dubious reputation—and an explanatory power and long-term perspective that its rivals can't touch. It is only from a Marxian standpoint that the recent credit bubble can be understood interms of the structural problems it affected to solve as well as those it has created.