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Bankers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your bonuses, big houses and Caribbean holidays; and now that so many are unemployed, you've finally got time to read Karl Marx's dire warnings about capitalism.

That's how today's London Times newspaper puts it, parodying the workers' rallying call that opens Marx's 'Communist Manifesto'.

And there may be something in it, because according to German booksellers, Marx's seminal works are suddenly in demand again after a lull of many decades.

Visitors to Marx's German birthplace of Trier have soared this year to forty thousand; the curator of the town's museum of Marxism is quoted as saying he's lost count how many visitors he's heard mutter that Marx was right all along.

Free market critics of Marxism, of course, have long argued that socialism leads to poor quality goods, authoritarianism, the gulags and the rest; but for now, certainly as long as the credit crunch lasts, the pro-lending expansionists are likely to stay under as dark a cloud as their Marxist rivals.

David Bamford, BBC World Affairs Reporter

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dire
وحشتناک، شوم

parodying
تقلید مسخره آمیز

workers’ rallying call
دعوت کارگران جهان به جمع شدن

seminal
در اینجا: تاثیرگذار، موثر

lull
دوره سکون و آرامش

curator
مسئول موزه

authoritarianism
خودکامگی، دیکتاتوری

gulags
زندان ها، اردوگاه ها ( بخصوص برای زندانی کردن مخالفین سیاسی دولت)

pro-lending expansionists
کسانی که معتقدند با وام دادن می توان اقتصاد را گسترش داد

to stay under as dark a cloud as
مثل یک.....نامحبوب بودن