Wed 11/21 Occupying Marx, with Gordon Fellman on OBR.FM

[David Oscar Knuttunen]

Wed 11/21/12 7:00 USA Eastern time on OB RADIO (http://obr.fm)
w/ rebroadcasts the following Monday 10:00 am and Wednesday 7:00 am.  Podcasts put up within 10 days after original broadcast.

 

Occupying Marx, with Gordon Fellman

 

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This week's show will be a rebroadcast of a show that originally aired on 3/14/2012.

 

What is the importance of a class analysis?  Why does the working class accept the myths of the ruling class, which have the result of keeping them in their place?  How did it happen that with the Occupy Movement, people suddenly began to "get it"?  How does the Occupy movement help us better understand Marx? - and how can Marx better help us understand the historical role and potential of the Occupy movement?

 

Brandeis Professor Gordon Fellman talks how Occupy helps clarify the meaning of central Marxian concepts like alienation, ruling ideas, false consciousness, genuine consciousness, and social class, and how one's understanding of the Occupy movement is greatly enhanced by applying Marx to it.

 

Gordon Fellman is Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, where he chairs the undergraduate Peace and Conflict Studies Program.  He teaches courses on War and Possibilities of Peace, Social Class and Social Change, Marx and Freud, Sociology of Empowerment, Psychoanalytic Sociology, and Sociology of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation.  The central questions he poses in his courses and his writings, are: What are the sources, in history and in the self's development and inner workings, of unnecessary human suffering? How can it be thoughtfully, carefully, mindfully reduced?

 

http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/sociology/people/faculty/fellman.html

 

Occupy Marx with Brandeis Prof. Gordon Fellman

Wednesday, 11/21/2012 7:00 pm USA Eastern Time

(rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired 3/14)
Occupy Boston Radio – OBR.FM
with rebroadcasts the following Monday 10:00 am
and Wednesday 7:00 am

 

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FSU-RADIO is an educational series by Occupy Boston's Free School University. Our goal is to form an autonomous zone and share skills needed to maintain that, to entertain educate and enliven Occupiers and the general public. Our purpose is to provide support and space for skill sharing and sharing basic info regarding Occupy Boston and to encourage self-organization, teaching, and learning opportunities.

 

Our Wednesday program consists of TALK radio featuring educational content such as lectures, panel discussions and interviews.

 

Host: David Knuttunen (guest hosts from time to time)

Time: WED 7-8pm USA Eastern time.  (Rebroadcasts the following Monday at 10:00 am and Wednesday at 7:00 am.)

 

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