FORTY-FIVE MILLION AMERICANS collectively owe upward of $1.4 trillion in student loan debt. Yet there is no need to worry. The magic of the free market has a solution for all of your problems. On July 10, 2018, "Paid Off" premiered on TruTV, a new game show that offers contestants a chance to escape a lifetime of debt peonage. âWe're capitalists. That's just the way it is.â
[. . .]
MARXISM CONSIDERED PHILOSOPHY as âbourgeois ideology.â This meant, first and foremost, radical bourgeois philosophy, the modern philosophy of bourgeois emancipation, the thought of the revolt of the Third Estate. But pre-bourgeois philosophy, traditional philosophy, was also addressed as bourgeois ideology, as ideology. But ideology is a modern phenomenon. Thereâs little point in calling either Aristotle or Augustine âideology.â It is when philosophy is invoked in bourgeois society that it becomes ideological. (Religion, too!)
[. . .]
On May 9, 2018, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Gregory Claeys, historian of socialism and author of Machinery, Money and the Millennium: From Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815â1860 (1987), Imperial Sceptics: British Critics of Empire, 1850â1920 (2010), Marx and Marxism (2018), among others. The day after recording the interview it was broadcast on âRadical Mindsâ on WHPKâFM (88.5 FM) in Chicago. What follows is an edited version of the interview.
[. . .]
Presented at the Left Forum 2018 on the panel âHas âthe Leftâ Accommodated Trump (and Putin)? A Debate,â with Ravi Bali, Brendan Cooney, Anne Jaclard, Daphne Lawless and Bill Weinberg, organized by the Marxist-Humanist Initiative at John Jay College in NYC on June 2, 2018.
[. . .]
Detlev Claussen ist emeritierter Professor fĂŒr Gesellschaftstheorie, Kultur- und Wissenschaftssoziologie an der Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz UniversitĂ€t in Hannover. Entgegen einer Vereinnahmung durch den akademischen Betrieb und der Anklage eines kulturpessimistischen RĂŒckzuges in einen vermeintlichen Elfenbeinturm verteidigt Claussen die politische Relevanz der Kritischen Theorie und geht in seinen Schriften auch dem Einfluss Lenins auf Adornos Denken nach. Jan Schroeder ist Mitglied bei Platypus. Das nachfolgende Interview fand am 21. MĂ€rz 2017 statt.
[. . .]
