Douglas Lain, Chris Cutrone, James Vaughn, Edward Remus and Clint Montgomery discuss Ken Burns’s PBS documentary series on the American Revolution and Sublation Media’s planned film on the American Revolution from a socialist perspective.
Chris Cutrone with Platypus pedagogues on Lukacs and Marxism
A discussion among Platypus pedagogues on readings from the Platypus Affiliated Society’s academic year syllabus of primary Marxist readings.
Readings addressed:
Georg Lukacs, “The phenomenon of reification” section 1 of “Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat” (1923)
Lukacs, “Class consciousness” (1920)
Lukacs, “What is orthodox Marxism?” (1919)
Lukacs, original preface (1922) to History and Class Consciousness