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Summer 2014 teach-in: Empire and social democracy

United Kingdom Architecture News - Jun 05, 2014 - 13:16   2270 views

Summer 2014 teach-in: Empire and social democracy

Saturday, June 14 from 1-4 PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave
Room 920

 

Taking advantage of the break in platypus' primary reading group schedule, they will hold a discussion of the relation of Keynesianism, social-democratic politics and Marxism to the purported decline of the U.S. as global hegemonic state, beginning in the 1970s and continuing in "Left" discourse to the present.

 

Readings for discussion:

Robert LekachmanCapitalism for Beginners (1981)

Michael Harrington"Marxism and democracy" Praxis International 1.1 (1981)

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