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  • Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 4 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'. Smith's notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx's understanding of capital, and Marx frequently quoted from Smith in his discussions in Capital and other writings.

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  • Lev Vygotsky

    Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Contribution

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Virtual Event
    Reading Group

    Carl Ratner presents a new edition of this six-week series, in which we explore Lev Vygotsky's approach to historical-materialist culture. Vygotsky (1896-1934) was a dedicated academic Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. He said, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science, how to approach the investigation of the mind.”

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  • Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    A weekly study group on Marx's Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best's 'The Automatic Fetish.' Marx's work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system.