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Alys E. Weinbaum
ENGL 556
Seattle Campus
Class description
This course has two aims. First, to treat several key works by Marx and Engels, examining concepts such as history and class, capital and labor, and fetishism and ideology. And, second, to explore parts of Marx and Engels corpus that are of particular relevance to the study of race, slavery and colonialism, and to treat a wide range of works by modern and contemporary theorists who have attempted to synthesize Marxism with anti-racist and anti-imperialist critique. Throughout the quarter emphasis will be placed on close reading of texts and on elaboration and analysis of the dialogues that are emergent amongst them. Previous course work in philosophy or critical theory will be helpful, but is not required as a prerequisite.
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