Marx Reloaded – Laurie Penny and others at the ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH – Wednesday 15 February 8pm

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The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH

To mark the release of the film Marx Reloaded, Laurie Penny, author of Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent, will be joining Paul Mason, Robin Blackburn and Jason Barker at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the 15th February to discuss the issues raised in the film.

Marx Reloaded features “a stellar array of philosophers” and promises “an electrifying examination of the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx’s ideas for understanding the current global social and economic crisis.”

Visit the ICA for more information about the event and to book tickets.

Marx Reloaded: Blue or Red Pill?

15 February 2012

£12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members

To coincide with the UK cinema release of Marx Reloaded, this debate considers themes from the film with speakers including Robin Blackburn, Paul Mason, Laurie Penny and Jason Barker.

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world,” Karl Marx wrote famously. “The point, however, is to change it.”

As popular resistance to the global economic and financial crisis grows, could it be that the “change” has finally arrived? The new #occupy phenomenon may suggest the desire for a world beyond capitalism. But how realistic is the communist, or “red pill”, alternative being advocated by philosophers like Slavoj Žižek?

For Žižek, Alain Badiou, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, communism is an antidote, not just to a crisis-ridden economy, but to a bankrupt ideology and whole way of life dominated by the “rights” of property and profit. But why should we be convinced that social and economic alternatives to capitalism are preferable to the crisis currently engulfing the globe? Is humanity standing at a crossroads where a decision – and by whom or in whose name? – for “another world” must be taken?

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