In this week’s episode, we discuss the ongoing healthcare crisis in Louisiana’s prison system, especially with Angola prison, the country’s largest state penitentiary. We also have a new album release ...
As New Orleans indie rock band Mars & Other Planets began to go through some significant changes in the last few years, dialectics was an idea that Marissa Douglas returned to often. It became a good ...
The concept of dialectics originates in the ‘logic of contradictions’, not in the sense of inconsistency, but as synthesis through the interplay of different forces. It was first propounded, in terms ...
MARXISM IS, in a nutshell, the theory and practice of working-class emancipation. Marxism is also a method of looking at the world. One of the most important foundations of Marx's method was ...
Dialectics (di-uh-lektiks). Noun. The first time I saw this word, nestled under week three of the syllabus for one of my courses last semester, I was confused — a state I've frequently found myself in ...
*This essay was originally written in 1932 and published as part of Erbschaft dieser Zeit (Zurich, 1935). The present translation appears with the permission of Suhrkamp Verlag which reprinted ...
Between 1872 and 1882, Frederick Engels worked on a book titled “The Dialectics of Nature” that sought to apply Marxist dialectics to the natural world. Although it was never completed and is filled ...
A movie about a guy falling to pieces, Half Nelson sometimes resembles its hero, Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling), an eighth-grade public schoolteacher in Brooklyn. Like Dan, the movie earns your respect and ...