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“The Young Karl Marx”

A film review

July 30, 2018 • by Ronald Tiersky

After a month in American theaters, the box office for “The young Karl Marx” was all of $58,277. This is almost incomprehensible as this is a wonderful, politically, historically and culturally rich film. A major international collaboration with first rate foreign actors, the film played at a single indie theater on ...

Reading The Second Sex in the Age of #MeToo

Where are we coming from, and where do we go?

March 12, 2018 • by Hannah Leffingwell

In the firestorm of debates about the implications of #MeToo, feminist activists and commentators have found themselves circling around the definitions of a handful of essential terms: rape, harassment, assault, consent. We have seen the word “pleasure” disentangled, and the word “inappropriate” expanded. We have discussed power and victimhood, empowerment ...

Marx’s Radical Development

Following Marx’s Train of Thought

November 16, 2016 • by Aaron Jaffe

There have been a few recent calls for a return to Marx, or openness to the thought that he “got it right.” To be sure, Marx got a lot -- a lot -- right, but simply peering into his writing desk -- as if setting things right for all time ...