GERST 6100 - [Marx and Marxisms]

(crosslisted) COML 6631, GOVT 6706, SPAN 6100

Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

G. Waite.

The terms “Marx” and “Marxisms” have meant different things to different people, beginning with Marx himself and continuing in his legacy today. As obviously, this legacy remains global (Europe, North and Latin America, India and Pakistan, Vietnam, Africa, Near East and Far East)—all still including imagined allies, neutrals, and foes. This seminar is an approach to this otherwise bewildering complexity: we focus on two things: (1) a possible Marxist (or Communist or Anarchist) theory of all language and any semiotics; alongside (2) its equally possible inter-action with manuals of guerrilla warfare.