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A figure of German chancellor Angela Merkel with the slogan 'money-grubbing' at a protest against banking and finance in Cologne. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
The news of capitalism's demise is (to borrow from Mark Twain) somewhat exaggerated. Capitalism has an inbuilt wondrous capacity of resurrection and regeneration; though this is capacity of a kind shared with parasites – organisms that feed on other organisms, belonging to other species. After a complete or near-complete exhaustion of one host organism, a parasite tends and manages to find another, that would supply it with life juices for a successive, albeit also limited, stretch of time.
