December 6, 2016: Capital

Tuesday at 4pm the OSU HI Working Group “Dialectics East and West” meets in Hagerty 145 to discuss the following questions:

What is capital? What is the relationship between money and capital? How does capital transcend money? How does capital affect humanity, human activities, and, ultimately, the whole of human experience? Can it be overcome, and if so, how?

Discussion will be based on a reading of the attached notes on capital.

Discussion may be informed by consulting these supplementary readings:

Capital, Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital, Marx.

Capital, Chapter 6: The Sale and Purchase of Labour-Power, Marx.

Grundrisse, The Chapter on Capital, P.702-712 (Penguin Classics), Marx.

The Wandering of Humanity, Repressive Consciousness, “Despotism of Capital”, Jacques Camatte.