Within the frame of Sucide or Solidarity?
organized by the radical collective Red Channels from New York:
Saturday 2nd July – 4PM
READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY
READING GROUP SESSION I
Okk/room 29
Prinzenallee 29
13359 Berlin
Join us to discuss Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver.
Link to the book is here
As social movements waned in the late 70s, the study of Marx seemed to take on
a life of its own. Structuralist, post-structuralist, deconstructed Marxes
bloomed in journals and seminar rooms across the US and Europe. These Marxes
and their interpreters struggled to interpret the world, and sometimes to
interpret Marx himself, losing sight at times of his dictum that the challenge
is not to interpret the world but to change it. In 1979, Harry Cleaver tossed
an incendiary device called Reading Capital Politically into those seminar
rooms. Through a close reading of the first chapter, he shows that Das Kapital
was written for the workers, not for academics, and that we need to expand our
idea of workers to include housewives, students, the unemployed, and other
non-waged workers. Reading Capital Politically provides a theoretical and
historical bridge between struggles in Europe in the 60s and 70s and,
particularly, the Autonomia of Italy to the Zapatistas of the 90s.
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Martyna Starosta
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