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11c ▪ Marx’ economische analyse: Das Kapital

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“Das Kapital” vormt de kern van de marxistische economische analyse. Zowel het boek met die titel als het begrip kapitaal zelf. Het is belangrijk goed voor ogen te houden dat Marx (terecht) kapitaal ziet als een sociale relatie: tussen de bezitters en beheerders van het kapitaal, de bourgeoisie, en de “bezitters” van de arbeidskracht, het proletariaat. Economische sociale relaties worden in algemene zin door Marx aangeduid met productieverhouding(en). Ik bespreek dit verder aan de hand van het 1e deel van Das Kapital.

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11B-2 ▪ Can someone define “Cultural Marxism” Please?

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Een discussie over cultuurmarxisme op http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=617657 bewerkt door Victor Onrust Acid Lamp  07-25-2011 08:26 AM Can someone define “Cultural Marxism” Please? I’m hearing this term thrown around lately from a few of our posters but I cannot seem to find anything that actually describes what this term actually means at all. The Wiki on it merely alludes to applying Marxist economic principles to culture, which really makes no sense. Help anyone? GreasyJack  07-25-2011 09:22 AM The key is how you define “class”. Marx almost exclusively defined class based on what role you had in production. In practice, this meant that certain cultural groups more often ended up as producers and others as capitalists, but this was in no way central … [CLICK TO READ MORE]

11B-1 ▪ Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies

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Paper by Douglas Kellner “Cultural Marxism and British Cultural Studies,” in Encyclopedia of Social Theory, edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks and London: Sage, 2004, 171-177. Many different versions of cultural studies have emerged in the past decades. While during its dramatic period of global expansion in the 1980s and 1990s, cultural studies was often identified with the approach to culture and society developed by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, England, their sociological, materialist, and political approaches to culture had predecessors in a number of currents of cultural Marxism. Many 20th century Marxian theorists ranging from Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, and T.W. Adorno to Fredric Jameson and Terry Eagleton employed the Marxian theory … [CLICK TO READ MORE]