The Alternative Orange (Vol. 4)

An Alternative Student Newspaper

Edited by

Brian Ganter ,   Adam Katz ,   Mark Redding ,   Amrohini J. Sahay ,   Stephen Tumino


Table of Contents
 
I. Volume 4, Number 1
 
On Other Campuses: Auburn University
 
On Other Campuses: Cornell University
 
On This Campus: October 27, 1994
 
On This Campus: Labour is Blossoming or Dancing
 
“The Stupidity that Consumption is Just as Productive as Production” (Marx, Theories of Surplus-Value)
 
On This Campus: Memo, Department of English, November 5, 1994
Memo (with Note From the Editors of the Alternative Orange)
DOSSIER ONE. Pedagogy and Profit: No to "Newt Thought"
DOSSIER TWO. WHY, For Some Pedagogues, It Is Necessary to Teach Long Sessions In Theory Classes On T &Th
 
Why Revolutionaries Need Marxism
• WHY REVOLUTIONARIES NEED MARXISM
(i) Revolution and the Need for Theory
(ii) Philosophy as the Basis of All Our Thinking
(iii) Philosophy and Our “Experience”
(iv) Philosophy and the Concrete Study of Concrete Conditions[1]
(v) Dialectical Materialism as a Philosophy of a New Type
• WHAT IS DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM?
(i) Materialism Vs. Idealism: the Basic Question of Philosophy
(ii) Materialism as a Rational and Democratic Outlook
(iii) Metaphysics and Mechanics in Earlier Materialism
(iv) The Theory of Dialectics.
(v) The Laws of Dialectical Development
(vi) Dialectics and Materialism: the Marxist Synthesis
 
Statement of Principles for the Alternative Orange
 
Contemporary World Situation And Validity of Marxism
 
Review: Reading Cultural Studies
 
Racism and How To Fight It
 
Kwame Nkrumah
 
II. Volume 4, Number 2
 
Statement of Principles for the Alternative Orange
 
On This Campus: March 31, 1995
Formal Grievance Against Professor Stephen Dobyns
Open Letter to the Syracuse University Community Against Institutionally-Shielded Sexual Harassment
To my comrades at the Alternative Orange,
Whitewashing Sexual Harassment: Creativity, Artistic Self-Expression, And the Commodification of the Bourgeois Subject
How Did It Happen? What Does It Mean?
Why Now?
 
radically trivial
The Pedagogy of the Jest
(radically trivial) The Radical Tangerine: Thought Police Nab Wrong Clown
(radically trivial) In Memoriam: The Death of Intellectual Discourse at Syracuse University and The Birth of the Cult of the Clown
(radically trivial) Humor as the Last Refuge of the Bourgeois Scribe
(radically trivial) The book of FF
(radically trivial) CONTRACT—ual WRITING: In the Craftshop of the “Creative”
(radically trivial) The Voices One Listens To—by Stephen Dobyns
(radically trivial) Addressing New Forms of Fascism on the SU Campus
(radically trivial) Facetious Fascism (FF) or How Clown Pedagogy Legitimates Bigotry
(radically trivial) FOOTNOTE: "Letter to the Editors"
(radically trivial) CRACK
(radically trivial) Strategies of Clown Pedagogy
(radically trivial) A Lite Reading Lesson: Towards the Topography of Post-al Fascism
(radically trivial) The Pedagogy of Performance
 
The Dark Bolshevik
Editors Note
THE FIRST FOLD On College Literature's Exclusions and Evasions
THE SECOND FOLD On Michael Sprinker's Passion for “Evidence” and his Rhetorical Bluffs
THE THIRD FOLD The Idealist Humbug
 
Marxism and the Theory of Knowledge
• THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
1. The Development of Ideas in Social Production
2. Ideas as a Reflection of Objective Reality
3. Distinguishing Truth from Falsehood
4. Scientific Knowledge and the Movement from Appearances to Reality
5. Freedom as the Understanding of Necessity
• THE MATERIALIST THEORY OF HISTORY
(i) The Nature of Men as Social Producers
(ii) Productive Forces and the Relations of Production
(iii) Basis and Superstructure
(iv) Historical Laws and Modes of Production
 
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