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How to run a Marxist book club? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I'm planning on starting a Marxist book club at my university, but I'm kind of dumb and have trouble understanding stuff, is there some trick I can use to understand more?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who are Cleaver and Harvey, never heard of them before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

the first is harry cleaver. he calls himself an Autonomous Marxist. He's not an ML (Marxist-Leninist). See his website - https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/

Cleaver wrote a book called 33 Lessons. each lesson explains the corresponding chapter in capital, volume I and what we can learn from it. He wrote the book based on his teaching. he published an updated version in 2019 with Pluto. I'm new to Cleaver so I can tell you he wrote this book but I can't recommend it as such as I've not finished it yet .

The second is david Harvey. he's also an academic marxist. Not an ML. He also taught capital for years. his lecture series is available on YouTube. he published a written version of his lectures with Verso. There's a volume one and volume two, corresponding to capital, volume I and II. the one that kind of corresponds more to Capital, volume III is different - it's called The Limits to Capital.

His website is https://davidharvey.org/about/ . I can recommend Harvey. his work really helped me to learn about marx .

these aren't the only two who have written guidebooks to Capital but they'll give you a flavour of what is available