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Rosa writing to Henriette Roland Holst, August 2011 is firm, chastising and correct, and it seems effective, Holst forms a new group which later enters the SPD, although…
Tag: Marxism
Marx’s 200th birth anniversary is in a week. what’s planned? [please add what’s on in your city]
Many of these are linking to Facebook, sorry, but the ungated web is gone… Celebrating 200 Years of Karl Marx Karl Marx, in full Karl Heinrich Marx (born…
Reminder to self to read this again, and again (3 times and it might stick). Spivak’s telegraphed coda.
From the essay ‘What’s Left of theory?’ In An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalisation. Spivak 2012: 216-7.Filed under: marxism, Spivak, trinketization
Soe Lin Aung: Three theses on the crisis in Rakhine
By now, the main contours of the recent events in Rakhine State, in western Myanmar, are well-known. On August 25, an insurgent group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya…
Blackboard Capital
Filed under: capitalism, historical, Marx, marxism, media, teaching
The masculinity of Marxist theory
It is an exaggeration to say that all Marxist theory people are men. But the historical masculinity of that little world — let’s face it —is hard to underestimate. I’m not talking…
Labour & The Self
What is Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self? How is it shaped by labor processes? According to Karl Marx, an individual’s self-identity influences their local context or is…
Marx in Algiers again
Of haircuts and Rhino coats… This is the worked up text of a talk I gave in Chandernagore in February 2016. The photo is one I’ve failed to trace…
Marx Eco Critique
Looking forward to reading this next year (not looking forward to paying 29 bucks – is this the save tries pricing? And is it an eco gamble to fix…
Reading Capital in Nottingham – every wednesday, 11am-2pm, from July 20 until 28 Sept, 2016
20 Jul 2016 – 28 Sep 2016 Join us for a ten-week course on Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1 Reading and writing with Professor John Hutnyk, in collaboration…
Marx Trot Sunday August 14, 2016 #Marx #walkingtourlondon
This year the Marx Trot is planned for August 14, 2016 Meet 1pm Archway Tube. bring enthusiasm, vox pop speechifying, money for drinks, drinks, sunscreen (we hope we…
How Karl Marx Ruined My Dinner Party
At dinner one night, I made two fatal social errors in rapid succession. First, during casual conversation with two good friends, I began talking about American culture. Not…
NEW! — Zoltán Glück: Of politics and crowds: A conversation with Susan Buck-Morss
This interview with Susan Buck-Morss took place at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center on May 12 2015. Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy…
Linguistic violence | 语言暴力
I was reading through 《平台魅力与舞台诱惑》 (Platform Glamour and Stage Lure: The Actors in China’s Internet Communication, edited by Yang Boxu and Xu Hong, 2011) when I came across…