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Der Junge Karl Marx
This looks quite earnest and it’s directed by Haitian film maker Raoul Peck (Lumumba, I Am Not Your Negro) so there’s no way I’ll miss it when it comes out in IMAX at the Metreon.
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Primitive Accumulation
From Capital, volume 1 (1867) [P]rimitive accumulation plays in Political Economy about the same part as original sin in theology. Adam bit the apple, and thereupon sin fell on the human race. Its...
View ArticleRevolution (303/415)
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the...
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The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning...
View ArticleMaterialist Conception of History (303/415)
In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the...
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The Angel of History or, Progress (AMST310/HUM485)
From “Theses on History” by Walter Benjamin: A Klee painting named “Angelus Novus” shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are...
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