September 2024

Marx the Moralist?

Did Karl Marx hate morality? He called morality a bourgeois prejudice, a way to trick workers into being docile drones instead of rebelling against the system. And yet at other times Marx sounds like very much the moralist.

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The Birth of Black Feminism

Anna Julia Cooper was born into slavery but became only the fourth African-American in history to earn a PhD. She lived into the 1960s, witnessing Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movement. Her book "A Voice from the South" influenced later thinkers like Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois.

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