Historical Materialism
Materialist approaches to historical development, class relations, institutions, and struggle.
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Accumulation, Surplus Population, and Expropriation
Module 7 of Capital and Political Economy: connect accumulation to the relative surplus population and recover the historical separation presupposed by wage labor.
Historical Materialism Without Inevitability
Week 1 of Marxism Fundamentals: read a historical argument, retrieve its method from memory, study a worked analysis, and apply the method to a new case.
From Utopian Schemes to Materialist Strategy
Week 2 of Marxism Fundamentals: distinguish a desirable social blueprint from an explanation of the forces, relations, and conflicts that could produce social change.
Class, Coalition, and the Political State
Week 5 of Marxism Fundamentals: analyze political crises through class fractions, coalitions, institutions, inherited forms, and the relative autonomy of the state.
Marxism Fundamentals
Learn the basic vocabulary and method of historical materialism, class analysis, value, exploitation, and political power.
Marxist Feminism: Foundations of Gender and Class
A materialist introduction to the relationship between gender oppression, the monogamous family, private property, and class struggle.
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 ...
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Theses on Feuerbach
Eleven compact theses in which Marx recasts materialism around practical, social, and transformative human activity.
Theses on Feuerbach
Eleven compact theses in which Marx recasts materialism around practical, social, and transformative human activity.