I decided to read Marx (years ago) as if I’d never heard of him. Most people, if they read Hegel, don’t think beforehand that they know...

Writing this biography, I was not only occupied with Marx’s life. I was also occupied a lot with his works. Now, in the 1st volume, only...

When I come to market with a commodity C and exchange it for another commodity C, I exchange equivalent for equivalent C-C. In this...

Youtube link to Lecture 6: Moishe Postone Capital Class 6 - YouTube PDF transcription of Lectures 1-6: Lecture 6 Finish Capital Chapter...

Let’s start with the term “critique of political economy”. Of course Marx is criticizing Adam Smith, David Ricardo and other economists....

When we talk about Marx’s relation to religion in these times, we have to understand that especially in the late 1830s in Prussia,...

Umut Bozkurt: What about the strategies of the institutional left? If you were to assess the strategies of the institutional left from...

How important was Jenny for the work of Karl Marx? Jenny was important in many respects for Marx. She was his lifelong partner and I...

Perhaps one of the most discussed philosophical issues regarding Marx is the relation between Marx’s theories and Hegel’s philosophy....

There are many reasons for the rise of right-wing parties (not only in Germany, but in other countries). One reason, for sure, is the...

This class struggle is a necessary class struggle for the working class in order to exist inside of bourgeois society. It is not at all a...

Now I will address what we can learn from Marx’s form analysis about socialism and communism – what it is and especially what it is not....

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The Young Hegelians Now we come to the question of the Young Hegelians. In most of the literature, it is taken for granted that the...

When Marx speaks about value – the value of a commodity – he never really meant a single commodity. A single commodity has no value. A...

There is a very widespread notion saying that it is a labor value theory and this labor value theory, opposed to a utility value theory,...

Link to Lecture on Youtube: Moishe Postone Capital Class 4 - YouTube PDF of lectures 1-4: Lecture 4: Finish Capital: Chapter 1, Begin...

Karl Marx started to write poems already in school time. He was probably forced to by school because in these years in Germany, it was...

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Link to lecture: Moishe Postone Capital Class 2 - YouTube Lecture 2: Finishing Theses on Feuerbach, Communist Manifesto and Beginning...