Peter Marcuse
At a conference on the legacy of 9/11 for New York convening tomorrow at a site near Ground Zero, I will be attending a lecture of the son of the famed Frankfurt School critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, Peter, who is a professor of Urban Design at Columbia University. Whatever my qualms with his father regarding the politics of the New Left, I am of course thrilled to have the chance to meet him. I have added his blog to my blogroll, as well.
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/arch-s17.shtml
My above link is to an article about an exhibit on Soviet modernism moving across Europe.
you will be proud to know that i am using a marxist framework for one of my debate cases!
i have to argue that animal rights are necessary to uphold justice and according to David Sztybel: “There is no doubt that Marx and Engels rejected animal rights. However, they did embrace the communist principle, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his need. ” Further- more, they acknowledged that nonhuman animals have needs. So the principle can enjoin us to respect animals’ needs, even if they lack cer- tain abilities (e.g., tool-making, perhaps even self-consciousness). I argue that it is essentially speciesist to restrict this principle to human beings, and that its acceptance implies either animal rights or a sub- stantive equivalent. Marxism may have to undergo a profound dialectical transformation in light of the implications of its own maxim.”