p Whenever a collection of Marx's works is published, a few questions inevitably arise. Is Marx still relevant today Do we still have something to gain from reading the great man's thoughts about economic structures To put this question another way - if Marx was wrong, in the end, about what communism would look like, then why do we still read his writingspp One way to answer this is by looking at the similarities between Marx's world and ours. The Communist Manifesto describes a world which is dominated by materialism. People are leaving their farms and flocking to the cities. Technology is steadily taking over the workforce. Cheap goods are flooding the market in Europe and beyond.pp Wage Labor and Capital describes, in familiar detail, the impact of technology on social relations. Both Wage Labor and Value, Price and Profit describe a world in which capital needs to constantly expand in order to stay competitive. Wages are kept as low as possible. Skilled workers are losing their jo