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Article: Marx@2000.com.(college professor describes teaching class on Karl Marx's 'Das Capital')
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Nobody seems to study Karl Marx anymore. Even in universities, once a bastion of Marxist scholarship and critical thought, students still reading Marx are pretty thin on the ground. Left-leaning young people these days are preoccupied with Derrida, Foucault, and other post-Marxist thinkers. Marx, they say, is old hat, dispatched to the dustbin of history. The working class is dead anyway, and didn't Marx's predictions about worker's revolution come tumbling down in 1989 with those giant statues of Lenin? Thinking people--even people thinking critically--thus reduce Marx's thought and vision to a series of shallow caricatures; they evidently think they know what the man ...
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Article: A Requiem for Karl Marx.
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January 29, 1996 ;
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...A Requiem for Karl Marx, by Frank E. Manuel (Harvard, 255 ... contributions to scholarship in A Requiem for Karl Marx are large but largely hidden. Manuel ... havoc in his name: For the sufferings of Karl Marx the exile, we can feel compassion ...
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