Marxist Theory
Marxist methods, categories, debates, and traditions of analysis.
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Analysis and articles
Scientific Socialism and the American Left
An essay applying Marx and Engels to American socialist discourse, scientific socialism, and online political commentary.
Learning
The Commodity, Value, and Social Form
Module 3 of Capital and Political Economy: follow Marx from use value and exchange value to socially necessary labor time and commodity fetishism.
From Abstract Categories to a Concrete Analysis
Module 10 of Capital and Political Economy: use Marx's abstract-to-concrete method and the machine fragment to construct a cumulative industry analysis.
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.
Transition, Distribution, and Communist Society
Week 6 of Marxism Fundamentals: distinguish production from distribution, compare lower and higher phases of communist society, and integrate the pathway's concepts in a final a...
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 ...
Library and reference
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.
The Civil War in France
Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.
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.
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx and Engels' concise account of class struggle, capitalist development, proletarian politics, and the communist program.
The Civil War in France
Marx's address on the Paris Commune, the class character of the state, and the political form of working-class emancipation.