Marx@2000.com.(college professor describes teaching class on Karl Marx's 'Das Capital')

From: Monthly Review | Date: November 1, 2000| Author: Merrifield, Andy | Copyright information

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 ...

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