tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post3039178150185488425..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The enjoyable Karl Marx - a classroom successAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-75917652182893233112010-03-08T20:21:53.107-06:002010-03-08T20:21:53.107-06:00Great post!
http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/20...Great post! <br />http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/2010/03/teacher-teaches-marx.htmlJay Rothermelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09531989615494104215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-63547855599072684692010-03-02T20:31:00.013-06:002010-03-02T20:31:00.013-06:00Yes I find Marx's life style funny also-he wou...Yes I find Marx's life style funny also-he would have made a good friend for Boswell-maybe Engels was just included by Marx as coauthor as he needed his financial helpMel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44844100040833968752010-03-02T20:23:04.323-06:002010-03-02T20:23:04.323-06:00Marxist are a bit embarrassed by the life style of...<i>Marxist are a bit embarrassed by the life style of Frederick Engels</i><br /><br />Eugene Kamenka wasn't a Marxist. Kamenka (<i>The Portable Karl Marx</i>, p. 198) says that Engels wrote a draft in question-and-answer form, and that Marx only kept a few passages: "the final version of the <i>Communist Manifesto</i> was written by Marx." And that's as much as I know about it.<br /><br />I'm not a Marxist, either - quite the contrary - so I find Engel's lifestyle not embarassing but hilarious. But none of that has anything to do with his ideas, so it wasn't part of my class.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-10806950349573746692010-03-02T16:54:57.189-06:002010-03-02T16:54:57.189-06:00Marxist are a bit embarrassed by the life style of...Marxist are a bit embarrassed by the life style of Frederick Engels-wealthy man given to hedonistic pursuits with money his family earned from factories they owned-to some extent Engels can be seen as a patron of Marx as well as collaborator-Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-90259561400370175322010-03-02T16:46:37.522-06:002010-03-02T16:46:37.522-06:00For months, I was going to assign Carlyle, but as ...For months, I was going to assign Carlyle, but as the syllabus-writing moment approached, I panicked. Thinking of Carlyle as heavy artillery is about right.<br /><br />Lizok - alienation every day? That ought to be plenty. Glad to hear that the concept is alive and well. I love that the student knew that the cause of his alienation was the division of labor. <br /><br />mel - the editor of <i>The Portable Karl Marx</i> doesn't focus on Engels, either - sort of dismisses his claim to authorship of <i>The Communist Manifesto</i>, in fact. That line about Balzac is a great reminder of what Romantics these guys were.<br /><br />SpSq - aside from Western Civ, all of the Marx was in upper level social science classes. That perhaps explains the difference. <i>The Communist Manifesto</i> is worth reading as a historical document, and as a piece of rhetoric. Non-neurotic readers can skip Part III.<br /><br />RT - it's an upper level social science class at a school I bet not much different than yours, a branch of the state system. Lots of commuters and community college transferees. The class is <i>not</i> in my specialization. I'm teaching it in part because no one else wants to. I also have an Intro class this semester, which takes approximately one-tenth of the time to prepare.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-85888919777115654962010-03-02T10:30:58.286-06:002010-03-02T10:30:58.286-06:00Interestingly, in my college career at a similarly...Interestingly, in my college career at a similarly large public university, I never read any Marx. Maybe I'll correct that someday.Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-75246924415608951982010-03-02T07:57:13.155-06:002010-03-02T07:57:13.155-06:00AR, this post brought back memories of a course I ...AR, this post brought back memories of a course I took in college, Marxist Political Philosophy, I think it was... the professor began just about every class by saying "Today we will discuss alienation." I often think of him when I read about assembly line jobs.Lisa C. Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34340676500603622702010-03-02T01:44:50.926-06:002010-03-02T01:44:50.926-06:00Interesting to hear the reaction of college studen...Interesting to hear the reaction of college students to Marx-many years ago I read the Manifesto -a lot of people do not focus in on Frederick Engels as coauthor of the Manifesto-Engels was a great scholar of the life of the working classes in England and elsewhere (while living the life of a hedonistic well of son of a rich German factory owner)-he said he learned more about life from reading Balzac than all the political texts in the British Library-Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64713873893368085392010-03-01T20:18:03.839-06:002010-03-01T20:18:03.839-06:00CORRECTION: "wondering" rather than &quo...CORRECTION: "wondering" rather than "wandering."R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-21306160109785531062010-03-01T20:17:18.412-06:002010-03-01T20:17:18.412-06:00To the extent that you are willing to do so, pleas...To the extent that you are willing to do so, please say more about your teaching: subject(s); level(s); etc.<br /><br />As a teacher myself, I am always wandering about what others are up to in their classrooms.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-89895334439418760262010-03-01T19:28:04.327-06:002010-03-01T19:28:04.327-06:00What a nice coincidence. Just today I gave a lect...What a nice coincidence. Just today I gave a lecture on the crises of modernity, and my once sentence devoted to Marx concerned his notion that the modern worker is alienated from his work. After writing that furiously on the board, I turned to my class and asked them if they understood what Marx meant by that. Many nodded their heads, and one even piped up, "assembly line shoe-making; I'm no longer a shoe-maker, I'm just a lacer." Well said, young man.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08579078279950747619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-85638441331988707212010-03-01T17:37:38.264-06:002010-03-01T17:37:38.264-06:00As with many coups, a counter-revolution drove the...<i>As with many coups, a counter-revolution drove the rebels from the palace. They were lucky to escape with their lives. What a disaster.</i><br /><br />You should have sent in Carlyle first, to weaken their defenses. They might have welcomed Ruskin as a saviour.Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.com