One of the central tenets of Marxism is the labor theory of value, which states that the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of socially-necessary labor time required to produce it. In ...

This is an edited and slightly revised excerpt from Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work, out from Verso. One of the pressing questions of the present is why so many ...

My presentation will be quite different from the others you will hear at this forum. To attend a conference concerning the commodity in order to launch a polemic against the very existence of the ...

Marx’s presentation begins with the analysis of commodities— of useful products of human labor that are bought and sold—because: The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production ...

This course will introduce students to the study of political economy from a Marxian perspective. Naturally then, the inspiration for, and point of departure for, this course is from the body of work ...

One of the central tenets of Marxism is the labor theory of value, which states that the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of “socially necessary labor time” required to produce it. In ...