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Crisis and Commonwealth Crisis and Commonwealth Marcuse, Marx, McLaren Edited by Charles Reitz LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2013byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Crisisandcommonwealth:Marcuse,Marx,McLaren/editedbyCharlesReitz. pagescm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7391-8306-9(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-0-7391-8307-6(electronic) 1.Socialjustice.2.Socialism.3.Incomedistribution.4.Marcuse,Herbert,1898–1979.5.Marx, Karl,1818–1883.I.Reitz,Charles. HM671.C752013 303.3'72—dc23 2013019771 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction:CrisisandCommonwealth―Politics,Pedagogy,Praxis 1 CharlesReitz 1 ThePoliticalEconomyofPredationandCounterrevolution: RecallingMarcuseontheRadicalGoalsofSocialism 19 CharlesReitzandStephenSpartan 2 SocialismOneSectorataTime 43 PeterMarcuse 3 Charter2000:ATransitionalProgramforLabor 51 DavidBrodsky 4 “VoteforaJob”:AShortHistoryofContemporaryStrategic FailureontheOrganizedLeft,withLessonsforthePresent 67 FredWhitehead 5 U.S.CapitalismandMilitarisminCrisis:OurPoliticalWorkToday 73 DouglasDowd 6 EmpireasaWayofLife:CourseDescriptionandCriticalReadings 95 JohnMarciano 7 SurplusOver-AppropriationandtheReproductionCrisisofthe WesternRomanEmpire 105 StephenSpartan 8 AnEssayonRepressiveEducation:Marcuse,Marx,Adorno, andtheFutureofEmancipatoryLearning 119 ArnoldL.Farr v vi Contents 9 CanDemocraticEducationSurviveinaNeoliberalSociety? 137 HenryA.Giroux 10 DefeatingCorporateBlueprints,WhitePapers,andBlueRibbon TaskForces:AcademicLaborReclaimsPublicHigher EducationforthePublic 153 PatriciaPollockBrodsky 11 ArtasaManifestationoftheStruggleforHumanLiberation:A Non-DogmaticMarxistPositioninAesthetics 161 ZviTauber 12 ALaborTheoryofEthicsandCommonwealth:Recallinga “New”Marcuse 175 CharlesReitz 13 Diversity,Equality,EmpowermentinPoliticsandEducation: PeterMcLaren 205 CharlesReitz 14 CulturalOriginsofAfricanHumanismandSocialism(Ujamaa) 219 AlfredTaligoolaKisubi 15 TheSecondAssassinationofDr.MartinLutherKing,Jr. 237 LloydC.Daniel 16 YearTwooftheArabRevolutions 245 KevinB.Anderson 17 RevolutionaryCriticalPedagogyforaSocialistSociety:A Manifesto 257 PeterMcLaren 18 TheCommunistHorizon 263 JodiDean Conclusion:TheCommonwealthCounter-Offensive 269 CharlesReitz Appendix:FourManuscriptsonValueTheory,Humanism,and Socialism 287 HerbertMarcuse NameIndex 311 SubjectIndex 313 AbouttheContributors 319 Acknowledgments My heartfelt thanks to each of the contributors to this volume for their part- nership in this project. I owe special debts of gratitude to Douglas Kellner, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Andrew Lamas, and Arnold Farr for insights gained whileworkingwiththemintheInternationalHerbertMarcuseSociety.Peter Marcuse’s participation and perspective is especially appreciated; also his permission as Executor of the Literary Estate of Herbert Marcuse to publish hithertounpublishedmanuscripts.JochenStollbergoftheFrankfurtMarcuse Archivewasakeyfacilitatorofmyresearchintooriginaldocuments. Justin Race,LenoreLautigar, Alissa Parra, andJehanne Schweitzer have been amiable and helpful guides during the publications process with Lex- ington Books. Discussions with my colleague Stephen Spartan have in- formed my writing and been formative to my own views. Jerome Heck- mann’s insights have helped me develop key arguments, as have comments fromMortezaArdebiliandMelanieJacksonScott. The following authors have graciously permitted republication of recent writingstowhichtheyretainedthecopyright: KevinB.Andersonfor“YearTwooftheArabRevolutions,”whichorigi- nally appeared in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 11, Nr.2–3(Spring–Summer2012). Lloyd C. Daniel for the “Second Assassination of Dr. King,” which ap- pearedinhis2003volume,LiberationEducation(KansasCity:NewDemoc- racyPress). Jodi Dean for “The Communist Horizon,” an excerpt from Chapter 1 of her2012bookofthesamenamepublishedinLondonbyVerso. Henry Giroux for “Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?”whichappearedbrieflyonthetruth-out.orgwebsitein2012. vii viii Acknowledgments Peter McLaren for the “Manifesto” which appeared in the January 2011 issueofTheCapilanoReview,CapilanoUniversity,NorthVancouver,BC. Zvi Tauber for his essay in this volume, which is published for the first time in English. This was earlier published in Hebrew in a volume that includestheHebrewtranslationofMarcuse’sfinalbookonthephilosophyof art:Herbert Marcuse, The Aesthetic Dimension, translatedandeditedbyZvi TauberandLeaDovev(TelAviv:HakibbutzHameuchadPublishingHouse, 2005). Finally, I wish to acknowledge the affection, words, and wise counsel of mywifeRoenaL.Haynieandmyextendedfamily––includingtheancestors, whoarerememberedwithlove.
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