1. Introduction to our critical Marxism – Alex Merlo

Reading materials

1.

• Ernest Mandel, 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 (extract), 1859

• Friedrich Engels, Letter to Konrad Schmidt, 27 October 1890 (Extract)

• Friedrich Engels, Letter to Borgius, 25 january 1894

• Karl Marx, Letter from Marx to Editor of the Otecestvenniye Zapisky (Extract), 1877

2.

• Ernest Mandel, 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