Funkentelechy
18th July 2015, 16:45
HI everyone, I just discovered this forum this morning and registered immediately. I've considered myself a Marxist for around a decade now, but still devote a great deal of time to learning about the tradition in my spare time--which is why I look forward to interacting with the members here.
I don't wish to get hung up on labels, but since it was through the "Paris Manuscripts" that I first came to these types of ideas, I would probably classify myself as belonging to the humanist wing of the movement. While in grad school I started reading vociferously the writings of Marcuse, Lukacs, Adorno, and those types. Nowadays I tend to focus my reading on American labor history. I'm near completing Irving Bernstein's "The Lean Years", and am moving on to Ginger's biography of Eugene Debs next.
I'm not active politically in my town, but may want to change that in the near future.
I don't wish to get hung up on labels, but since it was through the "Paris Manuscripts" that I first came to these types of ideas, I would probably classify myself as belonging to the humanist wing of the movement. While in grad school I started reading vociferously the writings of Marcuse, Lukacs, Adorno, and those types. Nowadays I tend to focus my reading on American labor history. I'm near completing Irving Bernstein's "The Lean Years", and am moving on to Ginger's biography of Eugene Debs next.
I'm not active politically in my town, but may want to change that in the near future.