Fundamentals of Marxism Discussion #2: Marx's Political Economy

This the second session in our summer-long Fundamentals of Marxism Study Series Check out the full series and readings.

For most people economics is a mystery better left unsolved, but Marx rescued economics from the economists and turned it into a tool for explaining inequality, exploitation, and crisis--as well as a way to end all three. And the current economic crisis makes study of this topic even more pressing!



Recommended prerequisites:

• Paul D’Amato, The Meaning of Marxism, chapter 4, Marxist Economic: How Capitalism Works and How it Doesn’t
• Phil Gasper, The Classics of Marxism: Capital Volume 1 http://www.isreview.org/issues/49/capital.shtml

Part 1: Value, Price and Profit -- Wed 8/4

• Marx, Value, Price and Profit (43 pages)
  http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/index.htm

If you prefer to buy the books: Wage-Labour and Capital and Value, Price, and Profit