Politics for the People: Marxism!
Taught by Nick Reynolds
Nick is a PhD candidate studying political theory at CUNY, with a BA and an MA in European history and Holocaust & Genocide Studies (he’s lots of fun at parties). An incorrigible nerd and bookworm, he’s interested in just about everything.
Since its birth in the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution, the modern world has been haunted by the specter of Marxism. Reviled by its enemies as the murderous red menace and embraced by its champions as the last best hope for the emancipation of the human race, Marxism remains -- paradoxically -- a vital school of thought and action even after most of the regimes that claimed to rule in its name have collapsed onto the ash heap of history.
So who was Karl Marx? What was his vision of human history, and how was that vision transformed into programs for political action? Marxism! explores these questions, starting with the theory’s roots in German philosophy and following it through almost two hundred years of revolutionary upheaval.
