From: SUBTILE-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 21:53:42 EDT
Subject: Re: intro 


Dear Marxists,
 I'm in the 2nd year of a PhD in Communication at the Ohio State University.
 My current e-mail address (subtile-AT-aol.com) is a vacation address: September
I will change addresses.  I think it's really cool that a marxist chat group
like this exists, though I'm a bit wary of academic conversations about Marx.
 Sometimes academicians can talk in a way that "declaws" Marx, deprives his
words of the power to effect a real praxis toward the world.  Even words like
"praxis" can themselves be turned into static tokens of the common attempt to
demarcate one's place in the community of academic careerists if they have no
connection to any real attempt to do something about late capitalism.
 The idea of doing a reading of CAPITAL is OK, though maybe it would also be
good to talk about a particular theoretical constellation within the
literature, bridging CAPITAL (Volume 1, 2, or 3? 3 is quite important,
volatile, and under-explored....) and other texts.  Some suggested
constellations:

1) The theory of the revolution, and its effect on marxism

2) The theory of commodity fetishism, reification, the culture industry etc.

3) The base/superstructure model

4) The theory of surplus value

5) The labor theory of value

6) The critique of alienation

PS Anyone out there belong to SOLIDARITY?
-Samuel Day Fassbinder



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