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The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Komoda Room
Compulsory and Free: Marx(ism) and Education
ICLS Graduate Student Colloquium presentation by:
Pieter Vanhove, Italian and ICLS
The advent of compulsory and free universal education post-dates Marx’s Capital, yet his understanding of education has informed many of his later readers. In this paper workshop, we will attempt to reconstruct passages from Marx, Luxemburg, Bernstein, Althusser, Gramsci, and others as embedded in their historic conjuncture(s), and put them to work in our contemporary political situation.
“As Robert Owen has shown us in detail, the germ of the education of the future is present in the factory system; this education will, in the case of every child over a given age, combine productive labour with instruction and gymnastics, not only as one of the methods of adding to the efficiency of production, but as the only method of producing fully developed human beings.” –Karl Marx, Capital
