Gothic Marxism and Marxist Romanticism: Horror, Witches, and Gothic Fascism

In part two of our discussion we finally get around to talking about horror movies, Jenny talks about Caliban and the Witch a lot more, and Chris brings that conversation back to fascism... again.

The outro music is Lords of the New Church- Open Your Eyes

Towards A Gothic Marxism I – On Monsters
https://thelitcritguy.com/2018/02/05/towards-a-gothic-marxism-i-on-monsters/

Towards A Gothic Marxism Part Two: Monsters For Socialism
https://thelitcritguy.com/2018/02/05/towards-a-gothic-marxism-part-two-monsters-for-socialism/ 

A Thousand Lost Worlds: Notes on Gothic Marxism by Adam Turl
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/evicted-art-blog/a-thousand-lost-worlds-notes-on-gothic-marxism 

Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/10/halloween-socialism-china-mieville 

Michael Lowy on Benjamin’s Gothic Marxism
https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/walter-benjamin-and-surrealism

The Horror of the Real: Zizek as Modern Gothic
http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/356/356

Adam Tooze on Surrealism and Gothic Marxism
https://blindfieldjournal.com/2016/12/01/of-surrealism-marxism/


McNally, David. Monsters of the Market : Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2012.

Cohen, Margaret. Profane Illumination : Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. New York London: Autonomedia Pluto, distributor, 2004.