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- as a group, we have created this video so as to better ilustrate the purpose of our blog:
spreading information about Karl Marx-
128 years after his death, Marx is still present in the basis on which society is constructed and deconstructed, being in our collective imagination not just a person, but a perception. It has been argued (Elster 1986, p. 4) that many of Marx’s most treasured policies have been utterly rescinded by history, due to the fact that his project gave birth to an “abhorrent social system”. However, in the deepest defeat of the human being, there is something that did not depend on the aggressor: the consent of the victim. In consequence, we may find the question: “Is Marx our contemporary?” most relevant; thus, in order to find the right key of interpretation, “we must look at the wood, not just at the trees” (Elster 1986, p. 3). A hypothesis can remain vastly prolific in its whole representation, if one knows to decant and best utilize the core, for notions such as “alienation, exploitation, technical change, class struggle, and ideology” ( Elster 1986, p. 3) still remain feasible.
spreading information about Karl Marx-
128 years after his death, Marx is still present in the basis on which society is constructed and deconstructed, being in our collective imagination not just a person, but a perception. It has been argued (Elster 1986, p. 4) that many of Marx’s most treasured policies have been utterly rescinded by history, due to the fact that his project gave birth to an “abhorrent social system”. However, in the deepest defeat of the human being, there is something that did not depend on the aggressor: the consent of the victim. In consequence, we may find the question: “Is Marx our contemporary?” most relevant; thus, in order to find the right key of interpretation, “we must look at the wood, not just at the trees” (Elster 1986, p. 3). A hypothesis can remain vastly prolific in its whole representation, if one knows to decant and best utilize the core, for notions such as “alienation, exploitation, technical change, class struggle, and ideology” ( Elster 1986, p. 3) still remain feasible.
”True ideas are eternal, they are indestructible, they always return every time they are proclaimed dead” (Žižek 2008, p. 4).
Furthermore, the relevance of mass-media and technology in the info-sphere that is current society can be considered in parallel with the Marxian avant la lettre perception regarding technology, methods of communication and general level of understanding (Dyer-Witheford 1999; Hardt and Negri 2005; McChesney 2007; Fuchs 2008, 2010). Accordingly, Gerald Sussmann (1999), cited in Fuchs (2009, p. 373), referred to Marx as being “one of the first to recognize modern communications and transportation as pillars of the corporate industrial infrastructure”. 
Although over the years the term Marxism has been given a negative connotation, through the generally accepted association with communism, we must step out of the convention. Together with my study group, I will endeavour to delineate the various patterns of societal identities and discover the conflicting effects of politics, ideology and human condition, in order to find and cultivate the liaisons between Marx and media.
References
Dyer-Witheford, N. 1999. Cyber-Marx. Cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Elster, J. 1986. An introduction to Karl Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Fuchs, C. 2008. Internet and society: social theory in the information age. New York: Routledge.
Fuchs, C. 2009. Some theoretical foundations of critical media studies: reflections on Karl Marx and the media. International Journal of Communication 3, pp. 369- 402.
Fuchs, C. 2010. Class, Knowledge, and New Media. Media, Culture & Society 32.
Hardt, M. and Negri, A. 2000. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
McChesney, R. W. 2007. Communication revolution. Critical junctures and the future of media. New York: The New Press.
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