Learning Pathways
Twelve structured routes through Marxist and Marxist-Leninist theory, political economy, Marxist feminism, American history, institutions, planning, technology, and global development.
12 routes through one library
Each pathway supplies a level, realistic time estimate, prerequisites, scoped readings, written lecture guides, discussion questions, and a working glossary. Longer books use selected chapters unless a complete reading is explicitly assigned.
Marxism Fundamentals
Learn the basic vocabulary and method of historical materialism, class analysis, value, exploitation, and political power.
- Estimated effort
- 6 weeks · 3–4 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- No prior study required
Capital and Political Economy
Move from the commodity and money through exploitation, accumulation, circulation, competition, crisis, and finance.
- Estimated effort
- 10 weeks · 5–7 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Marxism Fundamentals or equivalent
American Capitalism and the State
Study how constitutional institutions, corporations, infrastructure, public administration, and finance shaped American development.
- Estimated effort
- 8 weeks · 4–5 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Basic U.S. history recommended
Labor and Socialist History in the United States
Follow American labor from emancipation and agrarian revolt through industrial unionism, socialism, the CIO, and neoliberal decline.
- Estimated effort
- 8 weeks · 4–5 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- No theory prerequisite
Race, Reconstruction, and Class
Examine slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, racial ideology, labor, citizenship, and the material reproduction of hierarchy.
- Estimated effort
- 7 weeks · 4–5 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- U.S. Civil War overview recommended
Markets, Planning, and Socialist Democracy
Work through the calculation debate, information problems, institutional design, socialist experience, and democratic coordination.
- Estimated effort
- 8 weeks · 5–6 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Political-economy foundation required
Technology, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence
Analyze technology as a social relation shaped by ownership, management, skill, labor control, public investment, and political choice.
- Estimated effort
- 6 weeks · 4–5 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Labor-process basics recommended
Imperialism and Global Development
Compare theories of imperialism, world systems, finance, states, development, and socialist transformation across regions.
- Estimated effort
- 8 weeks · 5–6 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Political economy and modern history
Marxist-Leninist Core Curriculum
A 24-week intensive study of the primary texts that establish the Marxist-Leninist framework of materialism, political economy, state power, organization, imperialism, national liberation, and socialist transition.
- Estimated effort
- 24 weeks · 6–8 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Complete Marxism Fundamentals or demonstrate equivalent preparation
Marxist Feminism: Foundations of Gender and Class
A materialist introduction to the relationship between gender oppression, the monogamous family, private property, and class struggle.
- Estimated effort
- 6 weeks · 3–4 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- No prior study required
Marxist Feminism: Social Reproduction Theory
Analyze how capitalism depends upon the unpaid reproduction of labor power, the 1970s domestic labor debate, and the development of unitary social reproduction theory.
- Estimated effort
- 6 weeks · 4–5 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Pathway 01 or 10, or familiarity with Marxian value theory.
Marxist Feminism: Global Accumulation, Value, and the State
Examine the international division of reproductive labor, global care chains, subsistence production in the Global South, value-form critiques, and the capitalist crisis of care.
- Estimated effort
- 6 weeks · 5–6 hours per week
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Pathway 11 (Social Reproduction Theory) or advanced study in Marxist political economy.
Read, interpret, discuss, return.
Read with a scope
Assignments identify complete texts or selected chapters so the schedule remains achievable.
Use the lecture guides
Each written outline connects the readings and highlights the argument to reconstruct.
Test your explanation
Discussion questions and summaries ask you to apply concepts rather than merely recognize terms.
Terms in the context where they matter.
Every pathway closes with working definitions tied to its readings. The glossary expands with the scale of the curriculum and remains deliberately contextual: the same term can carry a more precise meaning as the level of analysis changes.