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Humanism vs. fascism

Date:
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Time:
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Class/Workshop
Organizer/Author:
Ron Kelch
Location Details:
Niebyl-Proctor Library,
6501 Telegraph Ave. (at Alcatraz)
Oakland, Ca.

On the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution:
Humanism vs. fascism, opposing capitalism then and now

Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr., Hungarian revolutionaries in 1956 not only created a new form of direct democracy in Workers’ Councils but raised Marx’s humanism as freedom from Communism. “The goal of human development, the form of human society,” which Marx had warned is not communism, took center stage against the single-party-state.

Today various forms of humanism, from Black Lives Matter to Prisoners’ Human Rights Movement, also project humanism as an answer to global capitalism. Can Marx’s humanism help our age in is search for a way to unite the idea of freedom with a new post-capitalist reality? (see “Spontaneity of action and organization of thought. In memoriam: Hungarian Revolution”, Nov-Dec N&L at newsandletters.org)

Sponsored by Bay Area News and Letters Committees
Added to the calendar on Sat, Dec 3, 2016 9:22PM
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