Marx is Back!
Los Angeles appearance of Paul D'Amato, Author of The Meaning of Marxism (www.haymarketbooks.org) and managing editor of the International Socialist Review (www.isreview.org)
They said that Marx was dead--that capitalism had triumphed. Then came the realities of globalization. Then came endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . Then came the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Now, Marx's ideas seem to explain the world a lot better than what you see on Fox News.
But Marx also predicted that the inequalities of capitalism would give rise to resistance. And we've only just begun to see the emergence of a new generation of struggles, from the protests for immigrant rights, to the outrage against bailouts for Wall Street while social services are slashed, to the factory occupation by workers in Chicago, to the massive outpouring of solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine, to the renewed struggle for LGBT rights.
Come to a discussion of Marx's ideas and how they apply to today, and then get involved in helping us to build a movement that puts Marx?s ideas into practice! As Marx himself said, "Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it!"
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