Marx 13/13 | Keynote Lectures and Discussion

Eduardo Cadava discusses

Politically Red (by Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsió)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Columbia University

Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsió have created a masterpiece: an exquisite book that represents an experience in itself—an experience of reading, in collectivity, that opens us to a whole universe of solidarity, of critical thought, of praxis, of passion, of beauty.

The book, Politically Red (MIT 2023)  embodies a world of reading and writing, in three-dimensions, that gives life to a whole universe of practice: first, through a journey of reading the writings of Frederic Jameson, Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, E.B. Du Bois, Cedric Robinson, and others, in conversation with the writings of Marx and Engels; second, though the creation of a community of critical thinkers and doers that we become part of as we enter this universe; and third, through an aesthetic experience that is perfectly curated with stunning reproductions of artwork, a spectacular book design, and a sensibility even to the touch, to the materials. This red book transforms the reader, the toucher, the thinker, the actor.

Please join us for this keynote seminar with Eduardo Cadava on Politically Red!