To watch recordings of the Volume 2 lecture series, please go to our YouTube playlist by clicking HERE
Building on from our Marx’s Capital Volume 1 Lecture Series, The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) is pleased to host a fresh series of public lectures on Marx’s Capital Volume 2: The Process of Circulation of Capital, given by the political economist and activist Andy Higginbottom.
We will use the Penguin (Fernbach) edition. The lectures will draw on the study guide produced by Ruy Mauro Marini and his comrades, that will be made available for the first time in English. The original study guide in Spanish is available here http://www.marini-escritos.unam.mx/pdf/288_economia_politica_3.pdf
The lecture series is accompanied by a weekly CSSGJ study group taking place on Wednesdays at 6.30pm (except in the weeks of the lecture). If that slot is not convenient, there will be another reading group meeting on Sundays at 9am (UK times). To join a group please email a.higginbottom@kingston.ac.uk for more details.
You will get the most from this course if you have already studied Capital Volume 1 comprehensively. A similar lecture series held by the CSSGJ on Volume 1 is available at https://cssgj.org/2022/01/13/marxs-capital-lecture-series/. We will proceed to Volume 3 starting in 2025.
The Volume 2 lectures will be monthly on Mondays at 6pm. They will be recorded and posted by CSSGJ. To register please go to Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/centre-for-the-study-of-social-and-global-justice-31319982869
Lecture 1: 15th January Introduction, the Metamorphoses of Capital (Chapters 1, 2)
Lecture 2: 19th February The Circuits of Capital in Circulation (Chapters 3 to 6)
Lecture 3: 25th March Turnover, Fixed and Circulating Capital (Chapters 7 to 11)
Lecture 4: 13th May Circulation Time and Production Time (Chapter 12 to 15)
Lecture 5: 17th June The Circulation of Surplus-Value (Chapters 16, 17)
Lecture 6: 22nd July The Simple Reproduction of Total Capital (Chapters 18, 20a)
The dates for lectures from early Sept to early December, are provisional, to be reviewed and confirmed.
Lecture 7: 2nd September Departments of Production (Chapter 20b)
Lecture 8: 7th October Expanded Reproduction (Chapter 21)
Lecture 9: 4th November Debates before and after Marx (Chapters 19, 20c; Luxemburg, Grossman)
Lecture 10: 9th December Marxist Dependency Theory on Rupture (Marini and Jaffe)
To watch recordings of the Volume 2 lecture series, please go to our YouTube playlist by clicking HERE
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