ONLINE COURSE - Marxist Economics for Beginners

An 8 week online course commencing Tuesday 11 February.

Fortnightly 90 minute zoom classes will supplement the online course and take place on

• 11th Feb 7pm
• 25th Feb 7pm
• 11th March 7pm
• 25th March 7pm
• 8th April 7pm

Course materials will be available to registrants from 28 January.

Zoom classes will be recorded and – if registrants are unable to attend one or more – there will be an opportunity to catch up.

Introduction
This course introduces students to Marxist economics. Students will learn about his famous ‘labour theory of value’, capitalist economies and their crises and what Marx had to say about capitalist profits.

Topics covered

1. Karl Marx and Labour Value
2. Class Power, Political Power and Exploitation
3. Capitalism and Crisis
4. Longer-term capitalist crisis

Further information

Do wage rises cause inflation? And does the free market ensure equal benefits for all? These are the arguments used today to disarm trade unionists and all those struggling against poverty and low pay.

Our Marxist Economics for Beginners course seeks to provide the counter-arguments - to demonstrate that under capitalism markets are designed to exploit and that, unless workers collectively defend their wages, exploitation will increase.

Everyone is welcome whatever your experience.

The course operates on a distance learning basis and lasts eight weeks. All you need is a computer or a mobile phone. The course provides direct access to readings and videos through a system called Moodle. This also enables written discussion with other students – and is supplemented by a zoom session at the end of each fortnightly class. So everything is accessible and enables you to participate in your own time (apart from the Tuesday evening zoom sessions which are also recorded and posted on the Moodle web).

The course is taught by range of tutors all of whom have experience in the trade union movement.

Host or Publisher Marx Memorial Library