Theodor Adorno “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?”

Opening Address to the 16th German Sociological Congress Source: http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/AdornoSocAddr.html; Translation: © 2001 Dennis Redmond; CopyLeft: translation used with permission, Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike); Original German: from Suhrkamp Verlag as: Theodor W. Adorno. Collected Works, Volume 4; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden. It has become customary for the outgoing chair of the German Society for … Continue reading →

Ernst Bloch “The Principle of Hope Introduction”

source: Marxists.org Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What are we waiting for? What awaits us? Many only feel confused. The ground shakes, they do not know why and with what. Theirs is a state of anxiety; if it becomes more definite, then it is fear. Once a man … Continue reading →

Ernst Bloch: Commentary on “Theses on Feuerbach” from “The Principle of Hope,”

source: Marxists.org Significant brevity is coherent, that is why it is the least quick to put itself into words. Thus the understanding must repeatedly prove itself anew in such propositions. This nowhere more freshly than in the terse collection of the most terse directions which are known as the Eleven Theses on Feuerbach. Marx wrote … Continue reading →