Marx's Capital, Volume I Andrew Kliman Tuesdays, 6:00 – 7:30pm March 1 – June 14 Tuition: $150 – $180,
sliding scale This 15-week course is devoted
to Volume I of Karl Marx's Capital: A critique of political
economy. Marx analyzes the capital relation as a process of
"self-expanding value." Throughout the course, we will stress the
relevance of this concept to the contemporary expansionism of the capitalist
system and the new movements against global capitalism. The specific
character of Marx's critique of capital, and its differences from others'
critiques, will also be highlighted. We will go through most of the
text fairly carefully, but proceed quickly through some lengthy discussions
of factual material -- on struggles over the length of the workday,
"machinofacture," and the historical origins of the capitalist
system -- in order to have more time to devote to more difficult portions of
the work. The instructor will provide study questions to assist
students as they work through the text. Students are strongly encouraged to
obtain the Penguin (or Vintage) edition of Capital, since this is what
will be cited in class. (The Penguin and Vintage editions are identical
in terms of translation and page numbers.) There will be no class on
March 22. Andrew Kliman, a professor of economics at Pace University, has
published extensively on Marx’s Capital, crisis theory, and value
theory — topics that he also teaches regularly. Co-editor of The New
Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics (2004), he is
currently finishing a book that reclaims Capital from the myth of
internal inconsistency, and is also working on a book-length study guide to
Volumes II and III of that work. |
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