1. Introduction to our critical Marxism – Alex Merlo

Reading materials

1.

• Ernest Mandel, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/19xx/marx-hist/app.htm The Place of Marxism in History, "Appendices": "The Eight Main Periods

of the “History” of Marx" and "A Few Events of Marx’s Time"], IIRE, Amsterdam, 1983

• Karl Marx, Tesis on Feuerbach, 1845

• Karl Marx, Abstract from the Preface of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859

• Friedrich Engels, Letter to Konrad Schmidt, 27 October 1890.

• Friedrich Engels, Letter to Borgius, 25 january 1894

• Karl Marx, Proyecto de respuesta a la carta de V. I. Zasulich, 1881

2.

• Ermest Mandel, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/mandel/1967/intromet/ch01.htm An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, "I. The Theory of Value and Surplus Value", 1974

3.

• León Trotsky, Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto, 1937