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Sent to list but rejected by listproc./Solidarity, Jerry From: "Drewk" <Andrew_Kliman@msn.com> Subject: New Course in NYC on CAPITAL, Vols. II & III for <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu>; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:06:51 -0800 (PST) Winter-Spring 2003 Class at the Brecht Forum MARX'S _CAPITAL_, VOLUMES II and III Andrew Kliman 16 weekly sessions (8 per semester) beginning January 30 Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 pm. At the Brecht Forum 122 West 27th St., 10th floor New York, NY (212) 242-4201. Tuition is $65-$95 (sliding scale). Course Description =================== Marx regarded _Capital_ as a “theoretical blow to the bourgeoisie from which they will never recover.” This two-semester course will similarly emphasize how a rigorous theoretical understanding of capital can aid the ongoing challenges to global capitalism. Volumes II and III of _Capital_ complement and complete the analysis begun in Volume I. Volume II situates Volume I’s analysis of the immediate process of capitalist production within the circulation and reproduction processes. Volume III endeavors to show that real-world phenomena do not contradict, but are “forms of appearance” of, the “essential” relations and categories developed in Volume I. We will begin with a user-friendly, 5-week survey of Volume II, focusing on the circuits of capital, the concept of productive labor, and the reproduction schemes. The remaining 11 weeks will be devoted to Volume III, and will concentrate on the appearance of surplus-value as profit; the distribution of surplus-value within the capitalist class; Marx’s law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit and crisis theory; and his argument that capitalism’s production relations (and not only its relations of income and wealth distribution) are historically specific and transitory. We will also explore Marxists’ and non-Marxists’ objections to Marx’s reproduction schemes, his account of the transformation of values into production prices, and his theory of the falling profit rate. For more information, or to obtain a syllabus and readings for the first session, contact the instructor at Andrew_Kliman@msn.com . Instructor ========== Andrew Kliman teaches economics at a local college, and has recently taught courses on “Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory” and “Marx’s Commentaries on ‘Capital’” at the Brecht Forum. His writings on Marx’s critique of political economy have appeared in _Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics_, _Capital and Class_, _Historical Materialism_, and elsewhere. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
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