As promised, I wanted to alert you to a few things I’ve posted in the past for students with regard to Marx and Engels:

• this post shows a picture of the “camera obscura” and explains the way the object works as a metaphor for Marx.
• Here I talk a bit about the relevance of Marx in the 2010s and places you might go to dig deeper into Marx’s work or postmarxist political thinking.
• This clip from the comedy series Portlandia captures, in a very funny and absurd way, some of the themes of Marx’s “fetishism of commodities” and “alienation of labor” arguments.
• Finally, here’s a look at examples of the “fetishism” of commodities from our friends at Apple. We’ll dig into this stuff today.