Full-program video with downloadable audio option at Poetry Center Digital Archive: https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poe...

"The work that we should involve ourselves in should be work at trying to transform the society….”

Amiri Baraka talks to students at San Francisco State University on March 22, 1977, in the César Chavez Student Center, presented by The Poetry Center at San Francisco State. This excerpt from Baraka's complete presentation, with his talk followed by a reading of new poems, concludes with his explanation of Marx's concept of surplus value:

“What is surplus value? Surplus value is all the wealth the workers create that they don’t get.”

This video clip is from the first of two programs featuring Baraka on the same day, with a reading and extended interaction with the audience later that evening at New College of California in San Francisco's Mission district also now available.

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