Washington U. Hosting Marxist ‘Cannibal Capitalism’ Anti-Trump Lecture
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Washington U. Hosting Marxist ‘Cannibal Capitalism’ Anti-Trump Lecture

Washington U. Hosting Marxist ‘Cannibal Capitalism’ Anti-Trump Lecture

“will examine the political environment under President Donald Trump and how to analyze America’s supposed flaws through the lens of Marxism and feminism”

The academic anti-Trump activities this year are not as bad as they were after the 2016 election, but the left still hasn’t learned a thing.

Campus Reform reports:

Washington U hosting Marxist ‘Cannibal Capitalism’ lecture on resisting Trump

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri is planning a lecture about “Cannibal Capitalism” that will examine the political environment under President Donald Trump and how to analyze America’s supposed flaws through the lens of Marxism and feminism, among other theories.

The lecture, “Cannibal Capitalism: The View from Trump’s America,” is scheduled for Feb. 25.

The event presupposes there is a “general crisis” in the “age of Trump,” caused by “multiple system dysfunctions.”

“In this lecture, Nancy Fraser traces the roots of the crisis to the constitutive dynamics of our society, which she calls ‘cannibal capitalism.’ Integrating Marxian insights with those of feminism, anti-racism/anti-imperialism and ecological and democratic theory, she expounds that system’s institutional structure, crisis tendencies and grammars of struggle,” the event description advertises.

Fraser will also answer the “burning question” of “[h]ow, in the age of Trump, might participants in those struggles coalesce in a counterhegemonic bloc with the heft and vision to effect an emancipatory transformation of society?”

Fraser is a political and social science professor at The New School for Social Research in New York. The lecture is inspired by her book: “Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It.”

Her other books include “Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto” and “Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory,” both co-authored with others.

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Comments

“how to analyze America’s supposed flaws through the lens of Marxism and feminism”
Come get fitted for your blinders.
Why not instead just give them LSD while you make them watch Trump speeches.

JackinSilverSpring | January 30, 2025 at 10:48 pm

How about a conference on corrosive Communism?

Dean Robinson | February 1, 2025 at 3:25 am

Let’s face it. There is a market for stupid, and plenty of hustlers out there trying to cash in on that demand. The idiots who sign up for her courses will get exactly what they deserve.