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RULES FOR INDEPENDENT STUDY ON MARX:
1. FOUR PAPERS. Each about 10 pages long. They can be on topics of your choice, but they
need to show close, careful reading of Marx; they may also involve contextualization of one kind
or another. You don't HAVE to go beyond what we are reading, unless the material compels you
to do so. I strongly suggest that you find topics that fit with your trajectory/interests in the
department. If you are doing a third field in World History, for example, then you might want to
develop a couple of the papers on Marx and methods in world history.
First paper due at start of Session III.
Second paper due at start of Session VI.
Third paper due at start of Session X.
Final paper due by the end of the semester, HOPEFULLY BEFORE FINALS.
BOOKS:
EARLY WRITINGS: translated by Livinstone, Penguin 1975ff
MARX-ENGELS COLLECTED WORKS V--this is THE SAME as the edition of GERMAN
IDEOLOGY that we used in last Fall's HIST 575, just without the footnotes. I think that the
pages were renumbered. No need to buy another edition.
THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848: POLITICAL WRITINGS V 1, ed. Fernbach, Penguin:
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
SURVEYS FROM EXILE: POLITICAL WRITINGS V2, ed., Fernbach, Penguin: this contains
18th BRUMAIRE
CAPITAL v 1: Fowkes translation, Penguin
I. The Early Marx I
Marx Readings: "On the Jewish Question," "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" (1843),
from Early Writings, 211-41, 243-57
Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, 3-107
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II. The Early Marx II: Feuerbachian Radicalism
Readings: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, in Early Writings, 279-401.
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III. Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Readings: Sections from The German Ideology and "Theses on Feuerbach," Marx-Engels
Collected Works, v. 5, 1-14, 19-96, 427-443 (in the Prometheus edition: 29-105, 452-469);
"Circular against Kriege," in Marx-Engels Collected Works, v. 6 (New York: International,
1976), 35-51
Max Stirner, "All Things are Nothing To Me," in The Young Hegelians, 335-53.
Sperber, Karl Marx, 108-236 (background from this week and next)
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IV: The Communist Manifesto, in The Revolutions of 1848, 62-98; Grundrisse, 256-59 (on
circulation and transportation); 649-52 (on historical modes of circulation); 524-25, 537-42 (on
the compression of space and time); 407-10 (the production of a world market and a global
culture); "Preface to the Critique," in Later Political Writings, 158-62.
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V. Representing the Fragments: The Failure of Revolution, the Origins of Fascism
Marx Readings: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in SURVEYS FROM EXILE,
143-249; "Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League" (June, 1850), in The
Revolutions of 1848. Political Writings I: 319-30.
Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (NY: Monthly Review, 1971), 52-55, 196-200,
(theory of the subaltern); 210-11, 219-33 (bonapartism and caesarism)
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VI: Capital I: Commodity, Value, and Money
Readings: Capital I: 89-103, 125-244
Moshe Postone, "Introduction," Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of
Marx's Critical Theory (NY: Cambridge, 1993), -3-71.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------VII: The Production of Absolute Surplus Value: Capitalism
Readings: Capital I:245-426
VIIL The Production of Relative Surplus Value: Industrialization
Readings: Capital I:429-639
E.P. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," Past and Present 38 (Dec.,
1967), 56-97
IX: Wages and Reproduction
Readings: Capital I:643-761
Gramsci, "Americanism and Fordism," from Selections from the Prison Notebooks (New York:
International, 1971), 277-318
X: The Accumulation of Capital
Readings: Capital I:762-931
Rosa Luxemburg, "The Historical Conditions of Accumulation," in The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
(New York: Monthly Review, 2004), 32-70