Jean-François Kahn on how capitalism is changing

In an interview conducted by William Bourton, Jean-François Kahn, chief editor and founder of the French weekly Marianne, describes the transformation of capitalism in the 21st century. "I think we are going through a revolution that is comparable with the 19th century transition to industrial capitalism. In the classic capitalist system, even when denouncing its worst aspect, the exploitation of man by man, there remained man, exploiter and exploited. The current economy's particularity is that man is disappearing whether the exploited or the exploiter. Take a company brought up by a pension fund: the workers of this company don't know who the owner is and the owners didn't know what they own."

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