Comments on: Marxist Economics and Hegelian Philosophy Explained

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:57:43 +0000

CLR James (1947) – ‘Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity’ (A black, Caribbean Marxist, who lived in US and Europe but is still greatly overlooked in the Euro-American theory canon) – brilliantly weaves Hegel’s sense and Marx’s historical materialism through a stage by stage movement from Jesus Christ and Emperor Constantine to the Soviet revolution and a predicted unification of the working class.

A piece of genius, imho, all graduate courses on Marx should appreciate and any fan of theory will fall in love with.

did i mention its great lol!

http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/diamat/diamat47.htm

By: rina sherman

rina sherman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:36:00 +0000

La passion du bonheur

a must read on puritan ethics.

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:33:03 +0000

The “Iron Cage” and the “Shell as Hard as Steel” And The Stahlhartes Gehause Metaphor in Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. P Baer History and Theory Vol. 40, No. 2. (May, 2001), pp. 153-169

Just to make sure you Get Past Parsons when you teach Weber.

I taught Weber this year and on reflection if I had one day to do it I’d do the “Objectivity in Social Policy” essay, “Scholarship as a Vocation” and “Nation State and Economic Policy” — I think those three (w/possibly a cut down version of Politics as a vocation) do a good job getting across who he was and how he thought.

By: N Pepperell

N Pepperell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:13:58 +0000

There are other (possibly more anthropologically interesting) ways to understand the theory of value – not sure whether it’s fair to plug my own work here… 😉 And the challenge of reading Marx’s own words (although I would ask students to do this too) is that there’s a complex subterranean critique operating in his text, particularly in the first chapter, such that many of the positions he outlines, I would argue, are actually the targets of his critique.

I would love, though, to be back in a place where I could teach a Marx-Durkheim-Weber sequence… I’m envious 🙂