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Re-reading Marx
Reading Marx’s theory this week, is actually a re-reading for me. In China, every single middle school and high school student is obligated to take a course that can be called “Political Science” where we learn Marxism and we have to memorize a lot of the concepts and the theory for the exams. And if […] Continue reading
Dear Iphone…
I read Marx years ago, probably like most students in the class, and it was refreshing to go over his ideas again. Although this time, it was different. I was reading Marx under a different angle. I was trying to figure out how to apply the marxist theory to literature. Yes, one can write about […] Continue reading
Ruling ideas in our times?
In the fragment of The German Ideology that we have read, Marx says “The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over the means of material production, so that thereby, … Continue reading → Continue reading