RETHINKING MARXISM (Pinchar Para ver Programación)

A short  homage. Marshall Berman and Antonio Gramsci. 

                                                          

Very recently we got the news about Marshall Berman death, an intellectual who joyously spent his precious life time to look into Marx, Modernism and Modernization, and many other issues he put together to originally think about the present and future of Humankind, in which destiny there is always a central role played by the working class and the workers as a whole.  Firstly of all, by saying that, I want to render a homage to him, who I met when he was teaching at the Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York, twenty years ago.

Taking into account Antonio Gramsci´s legacy about whom Berman did not talk on details, there is a common subject that both shared with Marx, to study the reality of work under the grip of modern capitalism. This paper, Passive Revolution, Democracy and Subalterns in Colombia, is centered in the relationships between Subalterns, that is, classes and subaltern groups, and actual democracy, on one hand, and how are they able to confront and overcome the current passive revolution experience in Colombian capitalism, on the other. (continue)