The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx
A lecture and discussion featuring SocialistWorker.org journalist Elizabeth Schulte
Saturday, May 12th, 6:00 pm
Rochester Community Television, 21 Gorham St. (off St. Paul St., right by the Genesee Brewery)
Few thinkers have been declared irrelevant and out of date with such frequency as Karl Marx. Hardly a decade since his death has gone by in which establishment critics have not announced the death of his theory. Whole forests have been felled to produce the paper necessary to fuel this effort to marginalize the coauthor of The Communist Manifesto.
And yet, despite their best efforts to bury him again and again, Marx’s specter continues to haunt his detractors more than a century after his passing. As another international economic collapse pushes ever growing numbers out of work, and a renewed wave of popular revolt sweeps across the globe, a new generation is learning to ignore all the taboos and scorn piled upon Marx’s ideas and rediscovering that the problems he addressed in his time are remarkably similar to those of our own.
Please join us at a public meeting, where Elizabeth Schulte will discuss the ideas of Karl Marx and how they are more relevant today than ever.
Elizabeth Schulte is a journalist for SocialistWorker.org and editor of its Books and Entertainment section. She writes regularly on the topic of abortion rights and women's liberation. Her writing has appeared in the International Socialist Review, ZNet and CounterPunch.
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/270948629668531
Saturday, May 12th, 6:00 pm
Rochester Community Television, 21 Gorham St. (off St. Paul St., right by the Genesee Brewery)
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