A Commentary on the Passing Scene by
Robert Paul Wolff
rwolff@afroam.umass.edu
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
MORE MARX!!
Here it is, Lecture 2 in my series on the thought of Karl Marx. Be the first among your friends to watch it. Guaranteed to give you pangs of nostalgia for the good old days.
Watching your two videos on Marx has crystallized a decision to undertake a serious study of Marxism for the next few years. I generally read in a fairly planned and organized way and among the contenders for my next project was Proust's In Search of Lost Time, but Marxism has a social value, puts me in fruitful contact with others that Proust definitively does not and it's a wise idea, I believe, to do something socially useful in my old age.
I hope to "feel at home" (to use Marx's eloquent phrase) with Marxism. That will take some time.
Thanks- I listened to it late last night but fell asleep half way through it. Great night's sleep but I woke up feeling somehow alienated. I will try it again tonight and let you know if the effect persists.
Thank you, sir. I really have enjoyed the first two lectures. I am trying to grasp the Frankfurt school also and I think it could be informative to hear your take on it. Alt-right and other liberal critics like Jordan B Peterson take aim at Cultural Marxism, identity politics and are not going to Marx himself. What are the difference between Cultural Marxism and Marx? Is there a fruitful way for the left by going back to Marx and going around the Frankfurt school?
I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.
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ReplyDeleteWatching your two videos on Marx has crystallized a decision to undertake a serious study of Marxism for the next few years. I generally read in a fairly planned and organized way and among the contenders for my next project was Proust's In Search of Lost Time, but Marxism
has a social value, puts me in fruitful contact with others that Proust definitively does not and it's a wise idea, I believe, to do something socially useful in my old age.
I hope to "feel at home" (to use Marx's eloquent phrase) with Marxism. That will take some time.
Thanks- I listened to it late last night but fell asleep half way through it. Great night's sleep but I woke up feeling somehow alienated. I will try it again tonight and let you know if the effect persists.
ReplyDeleteThank you, sir. I really have enjoyed the first two lectures. I am trying to grasp the Frankfurt school also and I think it could be informative to hear your take on it. Alt-right and other liberal critics like Jordan B Peterson take aim at Cultural Marxism, identity politics and are not going to Marx himself. What are the difference between Cultural Marxism and Marx? Is there a fruitful way for the left by going back to Marx and going around the Frankfurt school?
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