Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Spring Term Readings Marx

 

WEEK
TEXT(S)
PAGES
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“Estranged Labour” from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 

**Optional: “Wages of Labour” from the EPM
pp. 69-84
(optional: pp. 19-34)
3
“Wage Labour and Capital” (1847) in The Marx and Engels Reader
pp. 203-217
4
“The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” (1852), in The Marx-Engels Reader
pp. 594-617
5
Selections from the Grundrisse (1857-1858) on the labor process and the famous “Fragments on Machines” in The Marx and Engels Reader
pp. 278-285
6
Capital, vol. 1 (1867), Preface to the First Edition & ch. 1, “The Commodity,” secs. 1-2
pp. 89-93, 125-137
7
Capital, vol. 1 (1867), ch. 6, “The Sale and Purchase of Labour-Power”
pp. 270-280
8
Capital, vol. 1 (1867), ch. 7, “The Labour Process and the Valorization Process”
pp. 283-306
9
Capital, vol. 1 (1867), ch. 10, “The Working Day,” secs. 1-4 
pp. 340-366
10
Capital, vol. 1 (1867), ch. 10, “The Working Day,” secs. 5-6

**Optional: sec. 7
pp. 367-410
(optional: pp. 411-416)
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