Editor's note The following article was written by Walter Rodney for a 1971 issue of Maji Maji, the quarterly journal of the youth wing of the Tanganyika African National Union. The text is held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia, under the...
Class description: In Part 8 of the book, Marx turns to a brief historical analysis and critique of bourgeois political-economy's "origin story" of capital. Throughout the book so far, Marx has assumed that the conditions of...
Class description: Looking at chapter 25, where Marx synthesizes the previous sections of the book to articulate the general laws (or tendencies) of capitalist accumulation, this class...
Class description: This class covers chapters 16-24. We begin with a discussion of "productive labor," highlighting the ways in which capitalism views and changes labor and clarifying the role that this concept plays in...
Class description: In this class we continue our investigation into exploitation (i.e., the production of surplus-value), beginning with the struggle over the commodity of labor-power and the contradiction between its...
Class description: In this class we get at the first definitions of capital, labor-power, and surplus-value. Picking up on the introduction of money into the exchange process and the contradictions between use-value and...
Class description: In class 3, we take up exchange and money, where the C-M-C circuit makes its first appearance. We look at how money transforms and arises out of the exchange process and some of the contradictions inherent...
Class description: In our second class, we cover the first chapter on "commodities," where Marx begins laying the conceptual building blocks for his investigation. We cover use-value, exchange-value, and value, the two-fold...
Class description: The first class in our course on Volume 1 of Marx's Capital provides an introduction to the structure of the course and the book overall. We discuss the various prefaces and afterwords, focusing in...