“Is Marx still a threat?” Extrablatt for Arts of the Working Class

In February of 2022, the German Historical Museum in Berlin will open an exhibition on “Karl Marx and Capitalism.” They asked the Berlin-based bimonthly newspaper Arts of the Working Class (AWC) to prepare a special supplement  in response, and the newspaper asked me to co-edit it with AWC co-founder María Inés Plaza Lazo.

AWC has just published an eight-page selection of original texts and excerpts (with online versions to come) dedicated to such provocative questions as:

Was Marx a Conspiracy Theorist? (by Erica Lagalisse, author of The Occult Features of Anarchism)Who Believes in “Cultural Marxism”? (by Marc Tuters)Was Marx a Fetishist? (by J. Lorand Matory, author of The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make)Why is an analysis of race  and racism crucial to understanding capitalism? (by Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of ReThinking Racial Capitalism)Why Read Marx with Cats? (by Leigh Claire La Berge, author of the forthcoming Marx for Cats as well as Wages Against Artwork)How are anti-Marxism, anti-Blackness and Imperialism Connected? (by Charisse Burden-Stelly, author of the forthcoming Black Scare/Red Scare)Marxism and Disability (by Keith Rosenthal)Marx and Alienation (by Rahel Jaeggi)Contributions from the exhibition curators and museum directorAnd including art by Kara Walker

Copies of the Extrablatt are included in issue 19 of the newspaper, which can be found at arts institutions around the world and sold  street vendors in Berlin. Images and a PDF of the Extrablatt are below.

PDF: https://maxhaiven.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/AWC19_Extrablatt.pdf

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