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Kluge’s News From Ideological Antiquity. Part 2: All Things Are Bewitched People
Kluge’s News From Ideological Antiquity. Part 2: All Things Are Bewitched People
“Commodified things are not thingly, they are crystallized human characteristics, metamorphosed human beings.” —Alexander Kluge
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An Intro to Marxism—in Newark, New Jersey
An Intro to Marxism—in Newark, New Jersey
With short readings, focused presentations, and discussions, we will look at the rise of industrial capitalism and nationalism, the general characteristics of capitalist political economy and class, and the state, imperialism and war, workers organizations and collective power, and, finally, political action and questions of reform or revolution.
Reading Capital Politically
Reading Capital Politically
Marx’s maxim that class struggle is the “motor force” of history is to be taken literally and not viewed as simply some literary metaphor. But what does this mean in the real world? How does this work? And, how should we read Capital politically?
No Blood for Oil!
No Blood for Oil!
In his book George Caffentzis shows how Marxism accounts for the peculiar role that the oil industry plays in contemporary capitalism as generator of ecological devastation, war and exploitation.
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Hard Boiled Thursdays: Summer Fiction Series
Hard Boiled Thursdays: Summer Fiction Series
Verbal sparring, physical clashes, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital.
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Women’s Liberation Movement: 1968-1975
Women’s Liberation Movement: 1968-1975
As the Black Freedom movement turned to Black Power, feminists took theory from Black Power and applied it to their newborn movement. We'll read original sources from both the Black-led and majority-white branches of women's liberation.
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Reading Capital Politically Continues
Reading Capital Politically Continues
Marx himself intended Capital to serve as a “weapon” in the hands of the working class. This makes Capital first and foremost a political work. But what does it mean to read Capital politically?
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Thursday Noirs: Summer fiction
Thursday Noirs: Summer fiction
Verbal sparring, physical clashes, between corrupt cops and the world-weary detectives, the calm façade smiling at the world concealing a maniacal murder machine, when distilled in a fast-paced pulp fiction or poetically narrated in a noir satisfy some of our needs to explain the violent social disorder thrown at us large and small by the contours of life lived by dictates of capital.
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Women’s Liberation Movement: The Power of History
Women’s Liberation Movement: The Power of History
This class will analyze what made the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement spread fast and win victories, and also what made it vulnerable to watering down and liberal takeover. National Women’s Liberation is a feminist group for women who want to fight back against male supremacy and win more freedom for women.
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