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SUMMARY:Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
DESCRIPTION:Volume III of Marx’s Capital – The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole – integrates and completes Marx’s analysis\, 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 of capitalism. It is essential to understanding the current moment of late capitalist/imperialist development\, in which we see the rise of rentier and finance capital and the commodification of debt; continuously rising prices that bring still more poverty and starvation; new technologies turned into means of extracting rents; the privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; and the list goes on. \nIn this series of ten weekly sessions\, we will be guided through the key concepts in Capital III using Beverley Best’s highly praised companion volume\, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital. \nFred Murphy will facilitate this group. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research and reported from Latin America for several socialist publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/automatic-fetish-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Fall 2026,featured,Financialization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
DESCRIPTION:Join Russell Dale to read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. At present the group is 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.\n \nWe are reading the Oxford University Press edition of the work – the full title is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1976; General editors: R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner; textual editor: W. B. Todd). The book has been republished by The Liberty Fund and made widely available in a two-volume photographic reproduction edition. \nRussell Dale taught philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY\, for many years but is now retired. He has been a collaborator of the Marxist Education Project since its inception. He is on the Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/adam-smith/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,England,Fall 2026,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Volume I - A Short Course on Capitalist Production
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, September 19 through December 5 \n\nHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1\, but hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-session study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer facilitates as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This study group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. Lisa will be using the new Reitter-North translation of Capital\, but participants are welcome to use any available edition.  \n\nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/capital-short-course-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Historical-Materialist Psychology: Vygotsky's Contribution
DESCRIPTION:Carl Ratner presents a new edition of this six-week series\, in which we seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nThe most sophisticated approach to historical-materialist psychology was developed by the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” This was a comprehensive psychological theory that encompassed child development\, adolescence\, cognition\, perception\, personality/self. Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution.
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/marxist-psychology-2/
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CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,Fall 2026,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method
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