After all the Failures. Reinventing an Emancipatory Future
Panel "Property, Economic Democracy, and Communism"

David Ellerman “Neo-Abolitionism: Towards Abolishing the Institution of Renting Persons”
Raul Zelik “Rethinking Communism – … after Communism”
Moderated by Michael Hirsch

Specters of Communism - Program

On the occasion of the centenary of the October Revolution in Russia and nearly one hundred years after Kurt Eisner declared Bavaria a Free State and a socialist republic at the Mathäser-Bräu in Munich, Haus der Kunst will convene Specters of Communism: A Festival on the Revolutionary Century. This festival will trace the multifaceted, partly contrary and partly astonishingly parallel manifestations of global communism.

Conceived as a sequence of live events, the festival will bring together participants from across the fields of art, philosophy, political theory, theatre, performance, art history, film studies, and music in order to unfold the historical legacies of communism as a major feature of 20th and 21st century artistic, intellectual and political thought.