Analytical Marxism Reading Group
2010-2011
Convenor: Nicholas Vrousalis
nicholas.vrousalis@uclouvain.be
Session I - 06/10/10, 5 pm
Salle Vives, Chaire Hoover, UCL
G. A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (Princeton and Oxford, 2000), chapters 2, 3, 4.
Session II - 27/10/10, 6 pm
Café Maison du Peuple, 39 Parvis St. Gilles, Brussels
Cohen, KMTH, chapters 6, 7, 10.
Session III – 17/11/10, 6 pm
Café Maison du Peuple
Levine and Wright, ‘Rationality and Class Struggle’, in Alex Callinicos (ed), Marxist Theory (OUP, 1989), also available here.
Jon Elster, ‘Review of Cohen’, Political Studies 1980
G. A. Cohen, ‘Reply to Elster’, Political Studies 1980
Session IV - 01/12/10, 6 pm
Café Maison du Peuple
G. A. Cohen, History, Labour, and Freedom (OUP, 1988), chapters 6, 8, 9*
*All reprinted in 2000 edition of KMTH
Meeting V – 19/01/11, 6 pm
Café Maison du Peuple
John Roemer, ‘Property Relations vs. Surplus Value in Marxian Exploitation’ Philosophy and Public Affairs 11 (1982)
Roemer ‘Should Marxists be interested in Exploitation?’ Philosophy and Public Affairs 14 (1985)*
*Both reprinted in his Egalitarian Perspectives (better to read the latter, as there are important typos in the PPA versions of these papers)
Meeting VI – 09/02/11, 6pm
Café Maison du Peuple
G. A. Cohen, ‘Exploitation in Marx: What makes it Unjust?’ Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality (1995)
Allen Wood ‘Exploitation’, Social Philosophy and Policy 12 (1995), available here:
http://philosophy.stanford.edu/download/18530/Exploitation.pdf
Meeting VII – 02/03/11, 6 pm
Café Maison du Peuple
E.O. Wright, Classes (Verso, 1985), chapters 2, 3
Van Parijs, ‘A Revolution in Class Theory’ in Marxism Recycled (1993)
Meeting VIII – 16/03/11, 6 pm
Café Maison du Peuple
E.O. Wright et al., ‘Marxism and Methodological Individualism’, in Reconstructing Marxism (Verso, 1992)
M.E. Warren, ‘Marx and Methodological Individualism’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1988)
