I am thinking about:

• law and legal theory

• labor politics and organizing

• gender and sexuality

• historical materialism

• psychoanalysis

• teaching and developing critical thinking

And this probably encapsulates most of the things I will be writing about here. I passed by this graffiti every weekday for a summer that I worked in a museum, and it came to stand for something to me—a position worth the pound of flesh it demands.

But, if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

—Marx to Ruge, Kreuznach, September 1843