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The reference to figures such as George soros is very telling. I have a relative who is a financial director for a major Japanese car manufacturer. You could never describe this man as a Marxist but I found, while talking to him recently, that he boasts a deep understanding of and sympathy with Marx's economics. He certainly believes that, while in many areas flawed, Marx provided a perfectly usable - and just - economic model. The core problem for him is that Marx's economics hgas been tied to a government infrastructure that, at least as it's laid down by Marx, falls short of the sophistication and credibility of his economics. In short, Marx was far more adequate an economists than he was a politician.
The challenge, according to him, is to try and fuse the fundamentals of Marx's economics with some kind of political infrastructure able to see beyond a dictatorship of the proletariat - a dictatorship he considers unworkable due to massive shifts in technology since the 19th C. Working primarily in Japan, he alluded to the idea that many Asian companies are already trying to work out some kind of a synthesis in recognition that Western capitalism has proven to be too volatile a system to prove genuinely uesful in the marketplace.
I suppose the point of this rambling post is that, as Wheen suggests, it's not just Morning Star readers who take Marx seriously, but people at the very top of large capitalist organisations.
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