‘Marx Reloaded’ – FILM (Sunday, 17th at 6.00pm)
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“Marx Reloaded … examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx’s ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008–09.” The film also considers, in the context of a revival of Marxist thinking, whether “communism might provide the solution to the growing economic and environmental challenges facing the planet”
Film running time: 52 minutes
Free entry and refreshments
Discussion period
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/marx-reloaded-film-clapham-600pm
jondwhite wrote:I thought this went pretty well and female turnout was almost equal to male turnout.It is ironic. Now we can have most of the works of Marx and Engels on DVD, hard drive, and the Marxist Internet Archives has published all their works, and the new MEGA edition is going to consist of 132 volumes.During the hysteria of the Cold War, and the Cuckoo of Communism ( Democracy vs Communism, the Free World vs the Iron Curtain ) it was a crime, and a death sentence to read, or carry them, peoples at many airports were detained, taken to prisons, disappeared from the face of the earth, or were tortured because they were carrying 'communist literatures" .The priests used to call it the books of the devils ( They did not want to lose their clientele ) and the readers were the son of the devilSometimes they had to be carried inside of a Playboy magazine, or a Bible in order to read a small pamphlet. Many students graduated from the University Patrice Lumumba of Moscow never reached their destination when they arrived at the airport of their countries of origin. They had a big stamps in their passports that said: "You are not allowed to travel to Russia and its satellites"Nobody has been taken to jail for reading Superman and Batman, or Playboy magazine
jondwhite wrote:You didn't think Marxism would make a comeback?True! Marxism is an inexorable force. I hope I am around when the idea has reached its time.
jondwhite wrote:You didn't think Marxism would make a comeback?First, I think that the use of the concept of Marxism is incorrect, it was Engels and Bakunin who created that conception, and Marx himself refused to be called a Marxist, and Engels said that Communism was a doctrine, which is an incorrect expression tooSecond, the world never knew the real essence of Marxism, what the world knew was Leninism and Stalinism, or state capitalism, and most peoples have associated Sovietism with Marxism and socialism The World Socialist Movement is the only organization who have tried to disseminate and educate about the essential works of Marx, and the real concept of socialism, and probably, it has spent more time indicating what is not socialism.
mcolome1 wrote:jondwhite wrote:You didn't think Marxism would make a comeback?First, I think that the use of the concept of Marxism is incorrect, it was Engels and Bakunin who created that conception, and Marx himself refused to be called a Marxist, and Engels said that Communism was a doctrine, which is an incorrect expression tooSecond, the world never knew the real essence of Marxism, what the world knew was Leninism and Stalinism, or state capitalism, and most peoples have associated Sovietism with Marxism and socialism The World Socialist Movement is the only organization who have tried to disseminate and educate about the essential works of Marx, and the real concept of socialism, and probably, it has spent more time indicating what is not socialism.
So what are you describing as ironic?
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