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FREEDOM AS PRAXIS, POLITICS, AND PLACE: 1850 – 1968: “Materialist” Marxism and Anarchism. Full, positive, “public” freedom as direct democracy and democratic spatial praxis. From Aristotle and Marx. Anarchist-communism.
1. ARENDT: COUNCIL SYSTEM
Arendt audio lecture:
Recommended Reading: Hannah Arendt, from On Revolution, pp. 223-240; from The Human Condition, pp. 1-6. 2nd: Arendt, “What is Freedom,” pp. 143-151.
Selected On Revolution texts/quotations
Selected Human Condition texts/quotations
2. MARX 1: ALIENATION, PRAXIS, AND COMMUNE
Marx Alienation Praxis Commune Audio Lecture (MM)
Recommended Reading: Karl Marx, The Portable Karl Marx, edited by Eugene Kamenka. Viking Penguin Inc. 1983. Pp. 131-143, 155-158, 523-532.
3. WEIL AND FLORES-MAGON
Weil Flores Magón Audio Lecture (MM)
Recommended Readings: Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty. Trans. Arthur Wills and John Petrie. Routledge 2006. Pp. 79-84, 90-100; Ricardo Flores-Magón, “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” from Dreams of Freedom: A Ricardo Flores Magón Reader, ed. Chaz Bufe and Mitchell Cowen Verter. AK Press 2005. Pp. 190-195, 259-260, 267-268.
5. S.I. KELLEY BEY
S.I. Kelley Bey Audio Lecture (MM)
Recommended Readings: Situationist International, Situationist International Anthology. Ed. and trans. Ken Knabb. Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006. Pp.36-43, 49-52, 62-73; Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. Autonomedia 2003. Pp. 95-106, 114-130.