WHAT IS MARX200?
2017 and 2018 mark several anniversaries whose significance for the critique of capitalist society is hardly to overestimate. It is Capital’s 150th anniversary in autumn 2017, the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto in February 2018, and it would have been Karl Marx’s 200th birthday in May 2018. Moreover, we are approaching the 100th anniversary of Russia’s February and October 1917 revolutions and the German revolution in November 1918. A further anniversary to commemorate in 2018 will be the 50th anniversary ofz the global upheaval in 1968. Together, these anniversaries offer the unique opportunity to discuss the developments of ‘Critique following Marx’, the current state of discussions of Marx and social critique in general. It is, however, also an opportunity to re-orientate this discussion towards the future: what are the demands of a critique following Marx today? [ leia mais ]