Tag Archives: Karl Marx

Moll Flanders, Quintessential Capitalist

By Robin Bates | Published: September 11, 2013

Moll Flanders is the ultimate capitalist, putting a price on everything. And my class finds itself cheering for her.

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The Entrepreneurial Dream

By Robin Bates | Published: July 25, 2012

Millhauser’s novel “Martin Dressler” captures the dreams of capitalist entrepreneurs but also moves beyond dream.

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Analyzing Loughner’s Booklist

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2011

Like much of America, I am still in a state of shock over Saturday’s shooting of a Congresswoman, a judge, and 16 others. Like many I wonder if this was an example of a disturbed mind encountering the inflamed political rhetoric that has come to characterize American political discourse. (Add Arizona’s permissive gun laws into […]

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Seductive Balzac in Communist China

By Robin Bates | Published: August 4, 2010

Sometimes, it seems, we have to be deprived of literature to learn how powerful it is and how much we need it. Yesterday a colleague wrote about a former Chinese student of hers who, along with other Young Pioneers, discovered a secret treasure trove of books from the west during the dark days of the […]

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