Chicago Political Workshop

Educational Resources

Summer Reading Schedule

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The Critical Theory of Karl Marx: a Lecture by Moishe Postone 

Click here. (This is an explanation of Marx's critique of labor.)

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History and Helplessness:  Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism by Moishe Postone

Public Culture 18:1

 

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Moishe Postone. Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 

Click here for Google Books. 

 

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Manifesto against Labour by the Krisis Gruppe

krisis: Beiträge zur Kritik der Warengesellschaft. Erstellt von admin am Freitag 31. Dezember 1999

 

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Moishe Postone (with Timothy Brennan):

Labor and the Logic of Abstraction: An Interview

Click here. (South Atlantic Quarterly 2009 108(2):305-330)

In this interview, Moishe Postone, author of Time, Labor, and Social Domination, discusses the Marxian critical theory of capitalism against the background of the author's intellectual biography and central historical developments of recent decades. The interview focuses on his reinterpretation of Karl Marx's critical theory, especially on the notion of the historical specificity of the categories that purportedly grasp capitalism and its historical dynamic. It also engages the author's understandings of Georg Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and poststructuralism, while addressing issues of capitalism's historical transformations, its possible abolition, and the reconstitution of progressive politics. 

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Moishe Postone (Interview at the Institute for Advanced Studies, The University of Minnesota)

Theorizing Historical Change: Critical Theory and the Transformations of the Twentieth Century

Click here. 

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Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey 

Click here. (Harvey is among the best Marxist theorists of value from the standpoint of laborers.)

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More to come... 

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