Bread & Roses Film Festival

[ALB]

Details of this festival, held in the Bread & Roses pub, in Clapham Manor Street just round the corner from our Head Office can be found here and here.

Besides the radical films, the outdoor lecture on Karl Marx at the bandstand on Clapham Common at 3pm on Saturday 5 May looks interesting.

[ALB]

As the EC Meeting finished early, 6 of us went from Claph High St to hear  the talk at the bandstand in the middle of Clapham Common. There were a dozen or so others there in the mid-teen temperature (but, thoughtfully, the organisers supplied rugs). Professor John Hutnyk of Goldsmiths spoke for nearly 2 hours but he was very good. His approach was that of the postmodernists who analyse the non-literary texts as literature and he did succeed in bringing out Marx’s analysis of money, the market and the exploitation of the worker as a drama with an underlying plot. He gives free lectures on the subject. See his website.We gave out copies of a back issue of the Socialist Standard on Marx and went for a drink with him and others at the Bread & Roses. Not sure of his political position, but he did emphasise that Marx stood not (just) for higher wages but for the abolition of the wages system. There was however a passing favourable reference to Lenin …

[jondwhite]

Thanks for the report.

[alanjjohnstone]

Link to his Marx class http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/centre-for-cultural-studies/what-is-to-be-done/

[Anonymous]

Presumably it’s the same John Hutnyk who’s just joined our forum.  Welcome!

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