Platypus Bay Area

Join us at the Free Speech Café on UC Berkeley campus every Sunday at 3pm for a lively discussion of politics and the Left!

Join us today for our last reading group session from the primary Marxist syllabus as we head into summer! DM for the Zoom link. Everyone is welcome! 2:00PM pacific

Week 29. Theory and practice | May 29, 2021
• Adorno, “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis” (1969)
• Adorno, “Resignation” (1969)https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/readings/adorno_marginaliatheorypraxis.pdfhttp://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/adorno_resignation1969.pdf
+ Adorno, “On Subject and Object” (1969)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Adorno's critique of actionism chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Adorno, “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” (AKA “Is Marx Obsolete?”) (1968)
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Esther Leslie, Introduction to the 1969 Adorno-Marcuse correspondence (1999)
+ Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, correspondence on the German New Left (1969)
+ Adorno, Interview with Der Spiegel magazine (1969)