Class IV, April 30, 2017

Class IV:  Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism

Sunday April 30, 2017 

2:30-4:30 p.m. 

Southern California Library, 6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles 90044

 

Required readings:  

“The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret” in Chapter 1 of Capital

The Critique of the Gotha Program.  1875

The Collected Works of Marx and Engels. Volume 28 (Grundrisse). New York, 1986.  pp. 411-412, 530-531.  

 Capital, Volume III.  Penguin, 1981.  pp. 958-959

Optional readings: 

Peter Hudis.  Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism.  Haymarket,  2013

Moishe Postone.  “Abstract Time” (chapter 5) in  Time, Labor and Social Domination,  Cambridge University Press,  1993.