Medieval & Modern Philosophy · 19th century
Marx
Karl Marx as philosopher: historical materialism, alienation, the labor theory of value and surplus value, class struggle, what he got right about capitalism's dynamism and what history refuted.
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Prereqs: Hegel; Adam Smith. Next: Mill; Keynes; Popper (critique). Sources: Marx & Engels, *Communist Manifesto* (1848); Marx, *Capital* vol. 1 (1867); Gareth Stedman Jones, *Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion* (2016).Next: 1. History from the bottom up