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Marx’s “Capital” as a Literary Experience
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Mar 2020
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Columbia University PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature Tiana Reid finds that her students benefit from reading volume one of Karl Marx’s “Capital.” “There are so many literary ways to read it, which I don’t think blunt the more radical political reading,” said Reid, who conducts research in Black Studies, Marxism and feminism. 

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