On September 24, 2024 Lou Turner (Urban and Regional Planning, UIUC) and Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology, UIUC) gave a lecture on “Marxism” as part of the ongoing Modern Critical Theory lecture series organized by Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory at UIUC. Lou Turner’s lecture, titled “Marx: ‘The Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists,’” started with the young Karl Marx. “The ruthless criticism of all that exists” is a quote from a letter Marx wrote to his friend, Arnold Ruge. In it, Marx aimed to define radicalism and tried to rethink the nature of the criticisms of the time...