My Adventure with Marxism

Young Berman's father worked for years in different branches of the textile industry in New York. However, his heart succumbed to the brutality of the market before he turned 48. His son, who wants to take revenge, does not know where and how to start. A few years later, while a student at Columbia University, he discovered Marx's 1844 Manuscripts and bought twenty copies for 50 cents each and distributed them to those around him. For him, this is both the best revenge and the beginning of his adventure with Marxism. For Berman, the emancipatory potential of Marxism, that is, the capacity to imagine a world that goes beyond the fact that a person sells his labor in order to survive, awaits reconsideration…

Everything Solid Evaporates, Marshall Berman's iconic work on modernity... That book described the philosophers of modern life's view of modernity, along with rays of light about these days. My Adventure with Marxism starts from a personal experience and looks at the course of Marxism and its meaning today. Perhaps in order to understand the future... Again in the same agile and rich Berman language... the author discusses his experiences with thinkers such as Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Edmund Wilson, Isaac Babel and Perry Anderson; with dispatch and skill…

For those who (still) think that Marxism can be enjoyable, liberating and exciting as a special human experience...

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Number of Pages: 315

First Printing Year: 2005

Size: 13x20

Number of Printings: 4th Printing

Language Turkish