Radical Alternatives to Liberalism

I. What’s wrong with being ‘radical’?

          a) marginal or critical?

II. Marxism, or historical materialism

          a) the ‘material’ part

                   i) about social (class) relationships

          b) the ‘historical’ part

                   i) relationship of classes in place and time

                   ii) who exploits whom?

          c) two misconceptions about Marxism

III. Postmodernism/Poststructuralism

a)    priority of ‘discourse’

b)    problematising ‘reality’

c)    problematising the ‘individual’

IV. Feminism

a)    sex and gender

b)    material oppression and exploitation

c)    discursive critique – gender roles