The Last Years of Karl Marx

The Last Years of Karl Marx

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Coming to America: From Mao's China to American Suburbia

Through one family's journey from socialist China to the United States, we explore the gulf between the mythology of the American Dream and the realities of American capitalism. From the Cultural Revolution and Voice of America to racial and class hierarchies, liberal academia, a ...  Show more

Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key

Gabriel Rockhill joins Breht to discuss his book Requiem for French Theory, coauthored with Aymeric Monville, and to challenge the radical reputation of thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze. Situating their rise within the Cold War, Rockhill examines how intelligence a ...  Show more

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