This event is co-hosted by the Marxist Education Group and the Geopolitical Economy Research Group. The event will take place via Zoom on October 31.
Marx’s remarks on pre-capitalist economic formations, whether in the Grudrisse or The German Ideology have given rise to a vast literature on the subject all seeking to apply what they take to be a historical materialist method to analyzing diverse modes of production across time and space. While much of this effort has been erudite and enlightening, in this lecture Radhika will propose that Marx’s purpose in these investigations and commentaries had nothing to do with either a stagist or a determinist view of history. Against these accusations, often levelled at Marx and often put forth by the exertions of many a “Marxist”, there are reasons to believe that Marx was going beyond the statism and determinism of received accounts to something far more sophisticated and radical.
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