In this interview, Curry Malott and Derek R. Ford discuss their new book, "Marx, Capital, and Education: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Becoming." The interview begins with a general inquiry into their intellectual backgrounds as scholar-activists and, importantly, comrades. The authors then discuss the process of collaborating together…

To achieve its expressed political goals of social empowerment and transformation, cultural studies must maintain some significant ethical and political commitments. The growing field of cultural studies is analyzed in terms of its definition within a specific ethical and social justice agenda and its links to the critical pedagogy tradition in…

Stafford's counter-reply to Edgley's article, "Marxism, Education and Mr. Stafford" (v15 n2 p167-70 1981). The author clarifies his views on (1) the wage earner's right of dissent, (2) class differences as a source of social problems, (3) the tendency of political commitment to become ideological dogmatism, and (4) the evidence demonstrating…

A rejoinder to Stafford's article which states that Marxist teachers should not be tolerated (v15 n2 p161-66 1981). The author argues that in rejecting the Marxist critique of education which holds that capitalist schools indoctrinate students to reproduce the system, Stafford avoids confronting the reality of capitalist exploitation. (AM)