Hector Agredano
Student Fellow
Hector Agredano is a doctoral candidate in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. His research explores the development of rail infrastructures in Mexico in the early 20th century and their use by railroad workers and revolutionaries during the Mexican Revolution 1910-1914.
Participating Years
2016–2017
Consciousness and Revolution
The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?