Discussion #3 in our Fundamentals of Marxism Summer Study Series
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
- Capital, Vol 1, Part VIII Primitive Accumulation (chapters 26 - 32) (55 pages) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/
