EARLY MARX 101
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"Early Marx 101" is a year-long course led by Cadell Last. Throughout the course we will explore the early works of Marx (primarily from the 1840s) as a key foundational transition from the thought of the post-Idealist Young Hegelians, and into the struggles of Marxist political-economy. Consequently this course will not only give you an overview of early Marxist thought, but also insight into the struggles and problems that birthed the Marxist tradition. Throughout the course we will be framing Marxism, not as a final answer or solution for a higher order socialist political-economy, but as a question and a problem that continues to haunt us collectively, as well as a persistent symptom of both left and right-wing political orientations within capitalist society constituted by a dialectic of labour and capital.
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Register for the full course on Early Marx 101, which includes 7 full lectures on the foundations of early Marx, including lectures on the Critique of the Philosophy of Right, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideology, Wage Labour and Capital, and The Communist Manifesto. All Sales Final.
Theoretical Focus
Situating Marx’s practical politics in philosophical relationship to Hegel. Thinking about how the historicity of Hegel and Marx thought is conditioned by the political struggles of their time.
Thinking Marxist practical political project in relationship to the historical waves of emancipatory politics in the last 250 years (e.g. 1776/1789, 1848, 1917, 1968, 2010s)
Analysing the structure of Marxist thought as a persistent question/problem that still haunts the basic functioning of a society dominated by capitalist reproduction.
Meet Your Teacher
Professor Cadell Last
Cadell Last is the creator/founder of Philosophy Portal, the author of Global Brain Singularity, Systems & Subjects, Real Speculations, as well as the co-editor of Enter the Alien, Abyssal Arrows, and Logic for the Global Brain. He has a background in anthropology, history, complexity science, philosophy and psychoanalysis; and he teaches dialectical thinking at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, as well as the foundations of modern philosophy and psychoanalysis at Philosophy Portal. Throughout the first years of Philosophy Portal his teaching has been grounded in Hegel’s primary source texts, and this shift to teaching the early Marx constitutes a continuation of this interest and work. As is well-known, Hegel’s philosophy is a primary influence for the early Marx, and thus a background in Hegel should prove insightful for a deeper investigation of Marx. In this investigation, we seek to think the contradictions between Hegel and Marx, which still seem to cast shadow on our world.
Bonus Portal Sessions
Get access to complimentary Portal sessions featuring live sessions with critical theorists from Revol Press in June, as well as theorist of the commons/peer-to-peer Michel Bauwens in September; as well as recorded sessions from earlier this year with Marxist theorist Chris Cutrone.
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Recordings available indefinitely
MAIN COURSE WORK:
Introduction to Early Marx 101
Critique of the Philosophy of Right
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
The German Ideology + Theses on Feuerbach
The Poverty of Philosophy
Wage Labour and Capital
The Communist Manifesto
Complimentary Sessions
Haunting the Gothic Capitalist Castle ft. Revol Press
Addiction in Digital Capitalism ft. Revol Press
Collapse of the Future ft. Revol Press
What Is Beyond Capitalist Realism? ft. Revol Press
Basic Concepts from Macrohistorians ft. Michel Bauwens
The Pulsation of the Commons ft. Michel Bauwens
P2P Theory and the Commons ft. Michel Bauwens
Next System, What Can We Know? ft. Michel Bauwens
What Is Society for Marxism? ft. Chris Cutrone
Contradiction: Ontological vs. Epistemological ft. Chris Cutrone
Capitalism as Social Contradiction ft. Chris Cutrone
Society and Marxism, Today and Tomorrow ft. Chris Cutrone
Join Now
Join Now
Register for the full course on Early Marx 101, which includes 7 full lectures on the foundations of early Marx, including lectures on the Critique of the Philosophy of Right, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideology, Wage Labour and Capital, and The Communist Manifesto. All Sales Final.
