Originally published at Funding the FutureKarl Marx was not the first to critique capitalism, but he remains the most enduring. From the crash of 1873 to the Great Depression, from 2008’s global financial crisis to today’s looming debt crises, Marx’s diagnosis looks disturbingly accurate. What answering the Marx question might mean todayTo respond to the Marx Question, we need not replicate his prescriptions, but we cannot ignore his insights. We need progressive taxation of income, wealth, inheritance, and capital gains to rebalance shares between labour and capital. InferenceThe Marx Question asks whether a system that thrives on exploitation and crisis can ever be sustainable.