Adventures in Marxism

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Verso, 1999 - 273 pages
I feel like I'm one of those people that you talk about whose lives have been adventures in Marxism. I'm fifty years old, and since I spent my life as a construction worker raising a family, I'm at this stage still in college ... Your book was inspiring to me because it reminded me why I made the sacrifices I did to get an education ... the sheer joy of learning about ideas and the hope that education can make some kind of difference. He great thing about your approach to Marx is that you show that theory and the world of ideas can be exciting and intellectually rich, but also relevant to all workers, blue collar or otherwise.—Personal letter to the Author from Scott Smith, construction worker and student (Pittsburgh)
 

Contents

Some Adventures in Marxism
1
The Dancer and the Dance
19
Freedom and Fetishism
37
Still Waiting at the Station
57
Living in the Mural
65
The People in Capital
79
Marx Modernism and Modernization 16
91
The Signs in the Street
153
From Paris to Gdansk
171
Georg Lukácss Cosmic Chutzpah
181
Waiting for the Barbarians
207
The Presence of the Subject
221
Angel in the City
237
Unchained Melody
253
Index
269
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Marshall Berman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CCNY Graduate Center, where he teaches political theory and urban studies. He writes frequently for The Nation and The Village Voice, and serves on the editorial board of Dissent. He is the author of The Politics of Authenticity; All That Is Solid Melts into Air; and On the Town.

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