Workshop "The Tradition of the Oppressed"

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The Tradition of the Oppressed 20 June 2015, 11:00 - 18:30 at MaMa Multimedia institute Preradovićeva 18 10000 Zagreb Croatia As the proverb has it, “tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame.” This flame, however, has mostly been interpreted in a culturalist, humanist or conservative way. In his influential essay “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific,” Friedrich Engels (1880) deemed tradition “a great retarding force,” “the vis inertiae of history.” This negative view bec...