How do Marxists understand the world?
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.”
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859
Reading 1: Dialectical Materialism: the Foundation of Revolutionary Theory (WASP)
Reading 2: The Preface to “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy” (Marx)
Reading 3: The Materialist Conception of History (Engels)
Reading 4: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Chapter 2 (Rodney)
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