Marxism for the 21st Century?

BASIC QUESTIONS

1. What is Marxism?

2. What are Human Beings? What is Philosophy?

3. What is Society? What is a Social Theory?

4. What is History? What is a theory of History? What is Historical

Materialism?

5. What is Political Economy? What is a theory of Value?

THE THEORY OF VALUE AND CAPITALIST PRODUCTION

6. Value Theory I: Lets talk about Modes of Production, Capitalism and

Commodities

7. Value Theory II: Marxist Growth Theory and Crisis Theory

8. Value Theory III: What is the Subject of Capitalism?

8.5. Value Theory IV: Underconsumption, Okishio, Finance and the

Transformation Problem

8.75. Value Theory V: Extant Alternatives to Capitalism

MARXIAN CLASS ANALYSIS IN A CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

9. Class Today 1: the Managerial Revolution, Doesnt Diffusion of capital

ownership mean that everyone is a capitalist?

10. Class Today 2: States, Armies and Geopolitics

11. Class Today 3: Race, Gender, Class and Other Identities.

MARXIAN PHILOSOPHY IN A CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

12. Philosophical Problems 1: What about Consciousness?

13. Philosophical Problems 2: What about Morality?

14. Philosophical Problems 3: Does History have any direction? What

about Agency?

15. Philosophical Problems 4: Complex Systems, the Environment,

Information and the Posthuman (Grab-bag of ridiculous pessimism)
MARXIAN (LACK OF) POLITICS (Less clear about this)

12. Political Problems 1: Does Marxism even have a Politics? What is

Politics anyway?

13. Political Problems 2: What about Organizational Form?