how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd's masterpiece
- Written by: Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney
ShutterstockDixi et salvavi animam meam.
This Latin phrase – I have spoken and saved my soul – sits at the end of Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme.
Written in 1875, this text imagines a communist society that will come about “after the enslaving of the individual to the division of labour, and thereby also the...
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