Week 2: The material conditions of human life

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Required reading: Marx ([1844b] 1972)

Supplemental readings: Marx ([1848] 2000), Marx ([1844a] 1972), Marx ([1845] 1972), Fleck (1999), Vora (2009)

References

Fleck, Jack Lucero. 1999. “ABCs of Change.” Dialectics for Kids. http://home.igc.org/~venceremos/ABCS.htm.

Marx, Karl. (1844a) 1972. “Estranged Labour [a Section from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844].” In The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker, translated by Martin Milligan, 70–81. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

———. (1844b) 1972. “Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialistic and Idealistic Outlooks— Preface & Ideology in General, German Ideology in Particular [Sections from the German Ideology, Part I].” In The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker, translated by S. Ryazanskaya, 147–75. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

———. (1845) 1972. “Theses on Feuerbach.” In The German Ideology, edited by C. J. Arthur, 121–23. New York: International Publishers Company. http://books.google.com?id=DujYWG8TPMMC.

———. (1848) 2000. “The Communist Manifesto [Parts I, II, and IV].” In Karl Marx: Selected Writings, edited by David McLellan, 245–55, 270–71. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://books.google.com?id=yTWcAQAAQBAJ.

Vora, Kalindi. 2009. “Indian Transnational Surrogacy and the Commodification of Vital Energy.” Subjectivity 28 (1): 266–78. doi:10.1057/sub.2009.14.