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DESCRIPTION:On the 150 Anniversary of the first edition of Marx’s Das Kapital:\nHow 
 does Capital speak to today’s resistance?\n\nGlobal capitalism is again 
 in the midst of a collapse in the rate of capital accumulation. In the 
 pre-WWII period such a collapse led to fascist nationalism, disarray, 
 constantly shifting alliances and total war. The post-truth, helter-skelter 
 world of Trumpism and Putinism is no fluke, but is organic to capitalism, 
 its fetishism of the commodity. Marx's prediction of a collapse in the rate 
 of accumulation is again "topical." More relevant is Capital's capturing of 
 this epoch's spirit as a commodity fetishism, which is a recreation of 
 Hegel's self-estranged spirit. \n\nHegel distinguished his concept of 
 freedom from self-estrangement where things like money are power over self, 
 calling this post-truth condition the absolute inversion and estrangement 
 of thought and reality. The logical result is the ego run amok, a pure 
 negativity that has no positive within itself, a freedom which is an 
 absolute terror... \nHow does Marx's dialectic, which is indebted to 
 Hegel's self-estranged spirit, go further, beginning from a more internal, 
 profound concept of freedom in live human beings confronting this reality 
 in their everyday life activity? \n\nWhy have so many revolutions, 
 especially the great 1917 Russian Revolution of 100 years ago, been 
 transformed from within into their opposite? \n\nCan the multi-dimensional, 
 multi-linear concept of freedom in everyday life activity address the 
 question of our age: what happens after the revolution?\n\nDiscussion 
 sponsored by News and Letters Committees\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/17/18800902.php
SUMMARY:How does Capital speak to today’s resistance?
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/07/17/18800902.php
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