Today: Marx’s Ethical Vision

Vanessa Wills and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“Marx’s Ethical Vision”: Vanessa Wills in conversation with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

In this event, Vanessa Wills will follow Marx in centering labour (human beings satisfying their needs through conscious, purpose-driven, and transformative interaction with the material world) as the essential human activity. Working people’s struggles reveal capitalism’s worst ravages while pointing to a better future and embodying the only way there: rational transformation of our relationships to ourselves, to one another, and to the natural world, so that the human condition emerges not as a burden we must bear but as life we joyfully create. As Wills will argue, the purposiveness of labour gives rise to a normativity already inherent in the present state of things, one that can guide us in knowing what sort of world we should build and that further prepares us to build it. You can find out more and register here.