Socialist Reading Series I: The State and Revolution [Part 1]
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Why Lenin? Why now? This is the first entry into what I hope will be a reading series in classic socialist/communist/Marxist texts. I don't get to read many such texts as part of my graduate school education, and, in general, there seems to be little interest in analytic philosophy departments in discussing them. This isn't to say that there's a hostility towards such texts. There isn't, and in my experience most people's attitudes towards Marx and socialist theory remain generally warm. But only in a second-hand kind of way--the way that you might have a general positive attitude towards someone that your good friend has vouched for, but whom you don't know otherwise. I've met very few (any?) people in analytic philosophy under the age of 50 who have either read any of Marx's primary texts as part of their education, or who see Marxism as a serious object of study (dare I say he gets the same treatment in analytic programs as Nietzsche?). So, my impression is that Marx is rarely read, tolerated, but generally considered passe by folks around my age. (This is not the case in other
Socialist Reading Series I: The State and Revolution [Part 1]
Socialist Reading Series I: The State and…
Socialist Reading Series I: The State and Revolution [Part 1]
Why Lenin? Why now? This is the first entry into what I hope will be a reading series in classic socialist/communist/Marxist texts. I don't get to read many such texts as part of my graduate school education, and, in general, there seems to be little interest in analytic philosophy departments in discussing them. This isn't to say that there's a hostility towards such texts. There isn't, and in my experience most people's attitudes towards Marx and socialist theory remain generally warm. But only in a second-hand kind of way--the way that you might have a general positive attitude towards someone that your good friend has vouched for, but whom you don't know otherwise. I've met very few (any?) people in analytic philosophy under the age of 50 who have either read any of Marx's primary texts as part of their education, or who see Marxism as a serious object of study (dare I say he gets the same treatment in analytic programs as Nietzsche?). So, my impression is that Marx is rarely read, tolerated, but generally considered passe by folks around my age. (This is not the case in other