Category Archives for Marxism
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 […]
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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 […]
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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
Gramsci: a short text raising many questions…
Reading Gramsci, I discovered a really interesting thinker. Most of his work is available on line… in French http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/gramsci_antonio/gramsci.html in English http://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/ I am very convinced by the concept of hegemony, that probably influenced Bourdieu’s work…The idea of “spontaneous consent “given by the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life by the […]
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destruction
[From my prologue to Rodrigo Naranjo, Para desarmar la narrative maestra: Un ensayo sobre la Guerra del Pacífico.] “Creative Destruction: Ruins, Narrative, and Commonality” Marx and Engels long ago noted that capitalist productivity entails unceasing destruction and destitution. As they … Continue reading Continue reading
