Political Economy
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The Circulation of Capital: Reading Volume II of Marx’s Capital
The Circulation of Capital: Reading Volume II of Marx’s Capital
A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. In this volume, Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.
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Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates
Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works, New Debates
The MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism's catastrophic impact on the Earth's climate and other critical systems, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice.
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Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I
Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I
Participants in this class are closely reading and discussing Volume I of Karl Marx’s 'Capital, A Critique of Political Economy.' The second 10-week series starts April 6 with Chapter 6, 'The Sale and Purchase of Labor Power.'
Classical Political Economy and Marx’s Critique: Theories of Surplus-Value
Classical Political Economy and Marx’s Critique: Theories of Surplus-Value
Following up on the MEP's long-running study group on Marx's Grundrisse, we are now engaged in a close reading of Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (sometimes referred to as Volume 4 of Capital), supplemented by chapters from I.I. Rubin's History of Economic Thought.
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Animals, Capitalism, Marxism: A Conversation
Animals, Capitalism, Marxism: A Conversation
Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm.
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David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
David McNally joins our 10th anniversary celebration of the MEP with a keynote talk on "Marx and Colonialism: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey."