Presented by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 3 February, 2016
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In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels observed, in the Communist Manifesto, that a specter was haunting Europe - the specter of Communism. A century and a half later, it is Marxism itself that continues to haunt the Left, while capitalism remains.
What were Marxism’s original points of departure for considering radical possibilities for freedom that might still speak to the present?