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""Metromarxism"" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey. Each chapter combines interesting biographical anecdotes with an accessible analysis of each individual's contribution to an always-transforming Marxist theory of the city. He suggests that the interplay between the city as center of economic and social life and its potential for progressive change generated a major corpus of work. That work has been key in advancing pr Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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More than that, there's something about treating Marxism in particular as a roverboat ride of maitres penseurs that can turn icky. Because, you know, if this faith is about anything, fundamentally, surely it's about not tugging the forelock. And as I come back to Marxism in my old age (I think that's what I'm doing?), I find myself thinking that if it's anything, it's faith. I mean, not that Marx and people working in his tradition haven't done incredible scholarship - but what's changed the world is the ideas of Marxism, of revolution, of social justice, of the General Strike, etc., etc. It's about living with human dignity in a world full of forces trying to take it away, and in that sense the power of thinkers like the ones Merrifield presents to inspire and be your friend is a lot more like the power of the Virgin Mary or St. Christopher to cure your cancer or keep your luggage safe than it is what happens when people wrap themselves in a critical approach (or, like, look at everything through the lens of The Economist.
Without trying to give the Althusserian (or let's say it, Stalinist) strain in Marxism more facetime than it deserves, Merrifield presents an alternative lineage of firekeepers consisting of Marxism's wild, beautiful and damned. On the ostensible "Marxism and the City" level, Metromarxism is a little textbooky and doesn't present much beyond a (principled, entertainingly written) review of familiar Marxist ideas on urbanism (Marx and commodity fetishism, Engels and housing, Benjamin and the arcade of delights, Lefebvre and festival, Debord and freaky maps, etc.). But what it does that I really appreciate is tells a bunch of stories about some cool smart guys who walked something like the path you, the reader, are walking or trying to figure out how to walk or flirting with at least. Engels as Marxist Batman! Karl all sickly in his chair, and then 100 years later dancing on the cover of that dude's book! "I am a Marxist so later on we can all be anarchists"! Marshall Berman, of whom I'd never heard, and a "Marxism that helps old ladies across the street." And all along, I know I risk turning this into Benjaminism or something but hell: the City. Womb of the future, site of the alchemy, heart of all the things that will make the future worth living. I'm gonna volunteer for the NDP in the next election, I think. ( )