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DESCRIPTION:Author Bill Martin at Revolution Books     Marxism and the Call of the 
 Future: Conversations on Ethics, History, and Politics  Bill Martin 
 discusses the book he coauthored with Bob Avakian.  Sunday October 2nd at 
 6:00 p.m.   Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way at Telegraph (under the 
 Sather Gate P-lot) in Berkeley    From the back cover of Marxism and the 
 Call of the Future:  Bill Martin is a radical professor of philosophy and 
 maverick social theorist. Bob Avakian is a visionary communist thinker and 
 revolutionary leader. They both reject the fashionable claim that the 
 "triumph" of capitalism forecloses the possibility of radical change.  
 These lively conversations between Avakian and Martin probe a wide range of 
 issues: the place of ethics in politics; the Maoist experience in China; 
 sustainable agriculture and today’s lopsided economic development; the 
 post-9/11 agenda of the U.S. ruling class; Marxism and homosexuality; 
 secularism and religion; and animal rights. A major theme running through 
 this dialogue is the relationship between materialism and ethics.  "At this 
 dark time in the history of our country and of the world, we need some new 
 conversations about Marx and the socialist tradition – conversations free 
 of dogmatism, open to ideas from all sides, but oriented in a progressive 
 direction and eager to learn from thinking critically within the Marxist 
 tradition. This book provides us with one model of what those kinds of 
 conversations can be like."   –Allen W. Wood, author of Karl Marx and 
 Kant’s Ethical Thought    From the forward by Slavoj Zizek, author of 
 Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle and the Sublime Object of Ideology  "...so 
 important that it should stand on the shelf of everyone who cares about the 
 destiny of the political Left...marks the beginning of a new approach."    
 For more information please call 510.848.1196      Reiko Redmonde, 
 Revolution Books  2425 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704  510-848-1196       
  \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/23/76383.php
SUMMARY:Bill Martin @ Revolution Books
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way at Telegraph (under the Sather Gate 
 P-lot) in Berkeley  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/23/76383.php
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