The tone of much of the current discussion of Marx on the part of both supporters and critics of
globalization (for a forceful example of the latter, see William Greider's One World, Ready or Not:
The Ma
nic Logic of Global Capitalism) was established by John Cassidy's 1997 New Yorker article
"The Return of Karl Marx," in which he called Marx "the next big thinker." Cassidy cited a high
-
placed Wall Street investment banker who told him, "The longer I spend
time on Wall Street, and the
more convinced I am that Marx was right.