May Study Group:

WAGE LABOR AND CAPITAL by Karl Marx

Digital copy available courtesy of Marxists.org

June Study Group:

Selections from the ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHIC MANUSCRIPTS OF 1844

by Karl Marx

  1. Antithesis of Capital and Labour: Landed Property and Capital

  2. Human Requirements and Division of Labour:
    Under the Rule of Private Property

  3. The Power of Money

Digital copy of entire text available via Marxists.org

Zoom info:

WAGE LABOR & CAPITAL ZOOM MEETING

Time: May 30, 2021 07:00 PM America/Detroit

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For May and June study group will be going back to basics with selected writings by Karl Marx. This cycle will be co-led by nox library organizer, Cameron.

Summary:

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels in 1848.

"Wage Labour and Capital" is an 1847 economics essay by Karl Marx, first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. It is widely considered the precursor to Marx’s influential treatise Das Kapital. It is commonly paired with Marx's 1865 speech Value, Price and Profit.

The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, also referred to as the Paris Manuscripts or as the 1844 Manuscripts, are a series of notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx, published posthumously in 1932.

Please see under ‘June Study Group’ the selections we will be covering from the manuscripts.

Upcoming Schedule:

May 30th meeting @ 7PM EST: Read all of Wage Labor & Capital

June 27th meeting @ 7PM EST: Read the three selections from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844