Word: marxisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Former university professors of Marxism are now driving taxi-cabs, Pelikan said...
TOUT VA BIEN is the Sesame Street of political radicalism. It teaches its Marxism like the alphabet, a step at a time, no subtlety, no distractions. Godard assumes we know nothing and so tells us everything, lessons in the form of variety skits, the revolution as camp comedy...
Gospel According to St. Matthew. A far cry from the Hollywood Bible epics: immediate, made so by Pasolini's simplicity of setting and action, and his effective use of hand-held cameras and non-professional actors. Pasolini preserves the words of the gospel; his Marxism does not show through...
Steiner sees most of the provocative new ideas in Britain as coming from the Continent. "The intellectual traffic over here is tremendous, particularly French Marxism and French structuralism. Psychoanalysis, which has ground to a halt everywhere else, is being given a transfusion of radical sociology in France in psychopolitics: Freudian categories are being applied to the problems of labor, industry and the middle class. Bored with pragmatism and objectivity, the young of Europe are generally moving into an age of myth and irrationality...
...that "the speech of the oppressed" avoids myth. In fact, how could the oppressed ever bear their burdens without myth--and especially without the myth of the Revolution. Myth invades even the writing of the mythologist. The critic must have someplace to stand--for Barthes the someplace is a Marxism which casts the functioning of bourgeois myth into high relief--but that standpoint is itself necessarily a myth, which history and self-criticism will wash away...