Greetings!I have set-up this low-maintenance blog for sharing thoughts and additional resources pertaining to the works of Karl Marx. This is not at all "my baby" and so I hope we will all use it to our own likings. This blog is only open to our group. If someone wants to change that, and make it more "open source," that's fine with me. There are a few people who want to join us for our weekly meetings but are unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts. Therefore, I hope they can participate through this forum, and we can somehow keep them updated on our in-person Thursday discussions (not sure how best to do that, yet).
Our first meeting will be Thursday, January 15th in the first floor conference room from 4:15 - 5:45. I suggested arriving, having read the first chapter of Capital: Vol. 1, and have thus far heard no complaints or suggested amendments to that. It might also make our session more fruitful to come with questions you want addressed, etc.
Patrick and I briefly discussed sticking to one work, Capital: Vol. 1, throughout the whole semester. It's pretty substantial and we probably won't get through its entirety. However, if you want to get more or something else out of this reading group, please bring that up! Generally, everything is open for discussion or suggestions. Thanks, and looking forward to our semester of Marx.
Capital is kind of far along as a place to start, I think. The first chapter will give us some vocabulary but I wonder if for the next session we could read something from the 1844 manuscripts.
ReplyDeleteIs that in the Marx-Engels Reader, Jud?
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