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==Reading Materials==
OBJECTIVES
General objective: to introduce key issues and questions of the thought of Marx and our Marxism.


* Ernest Mandel, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/marx-hist/app.htm The Place of Marxism in History, "Appendices": "The Eight Main Periods of the “History” of Marx" and "A Few Events of Marx’s Time"], IIRE, Amsterdam, 1983
Objective of the different parts:


* Karl Marx, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm Theses on Feuerbach], 1845
1st Presentation. Explain the break with Hegelian philosophy; explain the development of Marx’ conception on "praxis" or practice, synthesized in the "Theses on Feuerbach".


* Karl Marx, [[Abstract from the Preface of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (extract)]], 1859
2nd Presentation. Explain how criticism of religions and abstract speculative thinking is Marx's precondition for all criticism; explain what is the next step following the criticism of religion: : the critique of really existing social relations.


* Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, [[The German Ideology (extracts)]], [http://www.4edu.info/images/7/77/1-EN-2.PDF Also:], 1846
3rd Presentation. Explain some specific elements of Marx's critique of the capitalist mode of production.


* Friedrich Engels, [["Introduction" to "Wage Labour and Capital" (Extract)]], 1891
PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS


* Karl Marx, [[Capital Volume 1, "Chapter Six: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power" (Extract)]], 1867
1st Presentation. Marx, his era and the break with the left Hegelians


* León Trotsky, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/10/90manifesto.htm Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto], 1937
1st part - Biographical notes of Marx.
 
Compulsory reading: Biographical remarks on Marx [https://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/marx-hist/app.htm]
 
2nd part. From idealism to materialism
 
Basic reading:
 
The Theses on Feuerbach. [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm]
 
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Preface [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm]
 
Further reading: D. Bensaid – Marx for our times
 
 
2nd Presentation. The critique of political economy.
 
Fundamental elements of political economy.
 
Basic reading: economic diagram [https://4edu.info/images/c/c4/Scheme_Ernesto01Eng.pdf] + selection of the text "Introduction to Marxist economic theory" by E. Mandel. [https://4edu.info/images/4/40/Mandel_intro_NEW.pdf]
 
Additional reading: "Introduction to Marxist economic theory"  [https://www.ernestmandel.org/en/works/txt/1967/intromarxisteconomic/index.htm] as a whole
 
3rd Presentation. Marx and the political. Critique of political concepts in Marx
 
Article "Classes and class struggle". Ernesto Díaz [https://4edu.info/images/6/69/Text_Classes.pdf]
 
Text: excerpt from Michael Lowy - Theory of revolution in the young Marx [https://4edu.info/images/1/1d/Lowy_Party.pdf]
 
Reading to expand. "On the return of the politico-strategic question". Daniel Bensaid [http://danielbensaid.org/On-the-return-of-the-politico-strategic-question?lang=fr]

Latest revision as of 10:25, 13 August 2018

OBJECTIVES General objective: to introduce key issues and questions of the thought of Marx and our Marxism.

Objective of the different parts:

1st Presentation. Explain the break with Hegelian philosophy; explain the development of Marx’ conception on "praxis" or practice, synthesized in the "Theses on Feuerbach".

2nd Presentation. Explain how criticism of religions and abstract speculative thinking is Marx's precondition for all criticism; explain what is the next step following the criticism of religion: : the critique of really existing social relations.

3rd Presentation. Explain some specific elements of Marx's critique of the capitalist mode of production.

PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS

1st Presentation. Marx, his era and the break with the left Hegelians

1st part - Biographical notes of Marx.

Compulsory reading: Biographical remarks on Marx [1]

2nd part. From idealism to materialism

Basic reading:

The Theses on Feuerbach. [2]

A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Preface [3]

Further reading: D. Bensaid – Marx for our times


2nd Presentation. The critique of political economy.

Fundamental elements of political economy.

Basic reading: economic diagram [4] + selection of the text "Introduction to Marxist economic theory" by E. Mandel. [5]

Additional reading: "Introduction to Marxist economic theory" [6] as a whole

3rd Presentation. Marx and the political. Critique of political concepts in Marx

Article "Classes and class struggle". Ernesto Díaz [7]

Text: excerpt from Michael Lowy - Theory of revolution in the young Marx [8]

Reading to expand. "On the return of the politico-strategic question". Daniel Bensaid [9]

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