COMMUNISM AND COMMUNITY: FROM SHAKESPEARE TO THELONIOUS MONK by Lizarraga, Fernando

“…We will argue that the most desirable and perhaps possible perspective —the more attuned to the Marxian vision— is that which is set in a middle ground between the idle plenty without norms described in Gonzalo’s utopia and the inexorable communism that is foreshadowed in The King Lear. Secondly, we will examine the shortcomings of the jazz band metaphor, stressing that mutual indifference and individualism —in a background of limitless abundance— are not in keeping with the spirit of Marxian communism. …”
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