Carl Davidsonposted toAdvocates of Communism A new post added on the OUL Blog today, a fascinating new introduction to the Communist Manifesto by Marshall Berman, first run in Dissent. Among other things, it mention study group on Marx among Wall Streeters these days trying to figure out what's really happening. Add your comments. Then go to our 'Study Guide' section and run the multimedia presentation on the CM, which combines popular folk songs, video and great narrative by Zach Robinson.
The Manifesto: A Document to Live with Posted by admin (0) Comment Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto By Marshall Berman Dissent Magazine, May 6, 2011 The following essay is the introduction to the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the Communist Manifesto, published this March. TODAY, IN the early-twenty-first century, the Communist Manifesto is far less read than it once was. It is hard for people who are just growing up to grasp the way in which, for most of the twentieth century, Communist governments dominated much of the world. Communist educational systems were powerful and successful in many ways. But they were twisted in the way they canonized Marx and Engels as official patron saints. It is hard for people who have grown up without patron saints—Americans should not be too hasty to include themselves—to grasp this idea. But for decades, all over the world, any candidate for advancement in a Communist organization was expected to know certain passages and themes from Marx’s writings by heart, and to quote them fluently. (And expected not to know many other Marxian ideas: ideas of alienated labor, ideas of domination by the state, ideas of freedom.) Full text: http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/?page_id=737 _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
