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== Outline of last years' presentation ==
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'''Aims''':

* Methodological introduction to the School<br>
* Presentation of some general problems of Marxist thought<br>
* Introduction to Marxist economy

=== 1. Marx's break: The Thesis on Feuerbach=== 

'''Introduction''': Place of Marxism in History

'''A.''' "Praxis”: Critique of vulgar materialism<br>
'''B.''' Man's essence. History and society<br>
'''C.''' "Self-emancipation": how to change the world.

=== 2. Marx's Historical Materialism. 1859 Prologue and Letters=== 

'''Introduction:''' Presentation of the text

'''A.''' Social relations of productions. The new starting point<br>
'''B.''' The notion of an "economic base"<br>
'''C.''' The progress in History

=== 3. The Critique of Political Economy. Introduction=== 

'''Introduction:''' Critique of Economy and Marxist Economy

'''A.''' The "simple" market. Use value and exchange value<br>
'''B.''' Surplus value, exploitation, labour force<br>
'''C.''' Consequences of the analysis

==Reading Materials==
PDF [http://4edu.info/images/d/d9/1-EN.pdf]

* 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, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm Theses on Feuerbach], 1845

* Karl Marx, [[Abstract from the Preface of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (extract)]], 1859

* Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, [[The German Ideology (extracts)]], [http://www.4edu.info/images/7/77/1-EN-2.PDF Also:], 1846

* Friedrich Engels, [["Introduction" to "Wage Labout and Capital" (Extract)]], 1891

* Karl Marx, [[Capital Volume 1, "Chapter Six: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power" (Extract)]], 1867

* León Trotsky, [http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/10/90manifesto.htm Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto], 1937