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<font size="4"><b>Marx's Ecology</b></font><br>
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<h3>Rafael Pereira<br></h3>
Marxism is usually presented as one more version of technological
determinism and thus as functioning within the framework of a "conquest
of nature" position. Yet Marx's writings on capitalist agriculture and
soil ecology, his philosophical naturalism, and his evolutionary theory
provide a more subtle perspective, one that renders real clues about how
to adequately deal with environmental problems. Here we will read and
discuss John Bellamy Foster's masterpiece Marx's Ecology in order to
understand the "ecological rift" that has been created by capitalist
civilization, resulting in human estrangement from both the natural and
social world. By reconstructing Marx's environmental sociology, we hope
to point to a more sustainable solution to the ecological crisis.
Limited to 16.<br>
<strong>Sec. 01: 10 Mondays, 8:00-9:30 pm. Begins Jan. 14, 42 Brattle St. | $186</strong><br>
ECOL–01<br>
$186.00<br>
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<h2>The Socialist and the Republican: Marx and Lincoln on the Civil War</h2>
<h3>Rafael Pereira</h3>
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</font></font>Current attacks on "socialist" policies are meant to portray any form of
radicalism as foreign to American society. Yet if we look back at
history, we find that Horace Greely, a founding father of the Republican
Party, employed Karl Marx as European correspondent for more than a
decade at the New York Tribune, while Lincoln appointed Charles Dana, a
son of Massachusetts and Marx's editor, as his Assistant Secretary of
War. In London in 1864, the first official business of the newly formed
International Working Men's Association (IWA) was to congratulate the
re-elected Lincoln and organize opposition to the European recognition
of the Confederacy. Running against the grain of our present political
culture, we will explore why, how, and when Republican and Socialist
political and intellectual interests coincided. Limited to 16.<br>
<strong>Sec. 01: 10 Mondays, 6:15-7:45 pm. Begins Jan. 14, 42 Brattle St. | $186</strong><br>
CIVW–01<br>
$186.00<br>