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From The Vault 1 Hour Version:FTV 0285 Howard Zinn's Marx In Soho |
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| This week on From on the Vault, we celebrate Karl Marx's birthday with a 2001 performance of Marx in Soho, Howard Zinn's play that resurrects Marx to defend his theories and allow us to see Marx not as an Intellectual Immortal, but as a human being. |
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Most Americans may not know a WORD that Karl Marx wrote or said... but they do know the political system Marx said would be the endpoint of human socio-economic development: Communism. Only Marx wants nothing to do with the Soviet Union's version of it and so he's come back to life in Howard Zinn's 1999 play Marx in Soho to defend his theories..... and so much more.
We hear Marx speak about his life with Jenny von Westphalen and their 7 children, of which only 3 survived to adulthood because of their abject poverty.
We also hear tales of his acquaintance with Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the Paris Commune of 1871, and his thoughts on how the world has evolved since his death.
Karl Marx is one of the great thinkers in human history but most know very little about him.
Those familiar with Marx generally know about his 2 great works, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848 ) and Das Kapital (1867).
Both of these works outline problems with the Capitalist system and predict that just as Capitalism evolved from Feudalism, there would be a natural evolution of Capitalism to socialism and eventually a stateless and classless society or Communism.
The legacy that Karl Marx has left behind is blurred forever here in America.
Marx's pro worker social and economic theories have not been met with open arms in our pro business Capitalist system, which often pits business owners against it's workers in a never ending battle of how to divide the profits. And Failed Communist Governments and other communist efforts has not been a very good Public Relations (PR) boost for Marx's theories.
Marxism and Communism was so demonized in the United states during the cold war that it lead to the anti-communist hysteria of the 1950's and the House Un-American Activities Commission hearings that destroyed the lives and careers of hundreds of Americans. The Huac hearings are infamously known for the following question, " Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Member Of The Communist Party?"
But America HAS adopted several social programs over the years which can in some way be traced back to Marx, Frederich Engels and other social philosophers of the 18th Century. And who better than Howard Zinn author of A People's History of the United States to make sense of the very complicated and misunderstood theories of Karl Marx.
In 1999, Howard Zinn wrote Marx in Soho, a one man play starring Brian Jones that resurrects Karl Marx to defend his theories and portray him as the human he was when he was alive: A family man struggling to support his wife and children. Here we present a condensed version of this play recorded for KPFK radio in 2001 in Los Angeles
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Kent state massacre we present the following historic audio clips from a Pacifica Radio documentary produced by Bill Northwood and Claude Marks in December of 1970. Here are portions of Red White and Blue Monday may 4, 1970.' |
Written and Produced by Mark Torres and
Brian DeShazor
Executive Produced by The Pacifica Radio Archives and Brian DeShazor
Marx in Soho written by Howard Zinn
starring Brian Jones
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Version 1: Howard Zinn's 1 Man Play |
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00:58:59 |
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Los Angeles, Pacifica Radio Archives |
2011-10-28 |
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