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 **Main reading:** Marx ([1843] 1978)
-This week, we read an early essay by Marx that foreshadows important elements of his critical perspective, and has had influence on many later social and political thinkers. This includes Antonio Gramsci, who is a Marxist political theorist who is probably most closely associated with one version of the concept “civil society.” For Gramsci, “civil society” is synonymous with “hegemony” (see Gramsci, n.d.).
+This week, we read an early essay by Marx that foreshadows important elements of his critical perspective, and has had influence on many later social and political thinkers. This includes Antonio Gramsci, who is a Marxist political theorist who is probably most closely associated with one version of the concept “civil society.” For Gramsci, “civil society” is synonymous with “hegemony” (see Gramsci, 2009 [1930–1932]).
 I would like us to encounter Marx on his own terms, and work on deriving a shared understanding of his position and his perspective based on a close reading of this single text.
-To begin, let’s start with a few assumptions and see how far we sustain it:
+To begin, let’s start with a few assumptions and see how far we can sustain them:
   * Everything Marx is saying about people and their relationship to the state is applicable in a general way to the present, although not in the exact details.