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Live-streamed course “Reading Marx’s Capital v1” starts Feb 5, 2019

A close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx’s Capital with Professor David Harvey.

This semester-long class meets on Tuesdays from 6:00pm – 8:00pm beginning on February 5th and ending on May 7th. It will be 12 weeks total, and will not meet on February 12 or April 23.

The required text for this course is Capital, Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx. The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital. Help finding the text.

Syllabus:

  • Class 1: Read the various prefaces and postfaces by Marx and Engles as well as the first section of Chapter One (“The Two Factors of the Commodity”), pages 89-131.
  • Class 2: Chapter One
  • Class 3: Chapters Two and Three
  • Class 4: Chapters Four, Five, and Six
  • Class 5: Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine
  • Class 6: Chapters Ten and Eleven
  • Class 7: Chapters Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen
  • Class 8: Chapter 15 (first part)
  • Class 9: Chapter 15 (second part)
  • Class 10: Chapters 23 and 24
  • Class 11: Chapter 25
  • Class 12: Chapters 26-33

Videos:

David Harvey Video Lecture Series: Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History
A Series of Six Video Lectures in Political Economy by David Harvey

  1. CAPITAL AS VALUE IN MOTION
  2. VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE
  3. VALUE AND ITS MONETARY EXPRESSION
  4. THE SPACE AND TIME OF VALUE
  5. USE VALUES: THE PRODUCTION OF WANTS, NEEDS AND DESIRES
  6. BAD INFINITY AND THE MADNESS OF ECONOMIC REASON

The lectures in this series were given from September through December, 2016 at The Graduate Center, CUNY and sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

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Debating Marx’s Crisis Theory & The Falling Rate of Profit

1. Video: A commentary on the falling rate of profit in Marx’s crisis theory. Izmir University of Economics – Workshop on The Great Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-created?

2. Paper: Crisis Theory and the Falling Rate of Profit by David Harvey

This is a draft of an essay to be published in 2015 in: The Great Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-created? Editors: Turan Subasat (Izmir University of Economics) and John Weeks (SOAS, University of London); Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

3. Paper: Monomania and crisis theory – a reply to David Harvey by Michael Roberts

4. Blog Post: David Harvey, monomaniacs and the rate of profit by Michael Roberts

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