Syllabus Essex

SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND ART HISTORY 2012-2013

Module Description, Reading List and Essay Questions

CAPITALISM AND ITS CRITICS PY429-5-AU Autumn Term only (15 credits)

Fabian Freyenhagen Office No. 5B.109Teaching Assistant: Dan Swain Office No. 5B.122

This is an optional module offered to philosophy undergraduates in their 2nd Year. It is open to outside option students.

The School would like to encourage any student with a disability or health issue that needs to be taken into account to contact the Student Support Office, either by email on [email protected], or by telephoning internal ext. 2365 or 3444.

Assessment

Assessment for undergraduates is by means of one (2-3,000 word) essay, and a two-hour examination at the end of the year.

The final coursework mark and the examination mark each count for 50% of the mark for the module.

Students who submit their essay by the deadline and receive a minimum mark of 35, may if they wish submit a second (optional) essay. If an optional essay is submitted the best essay mark will count towards the final coursework mark.

The University operates a uniform Coursework Deadline policy on late submission of coursework: each piece of coursework must be submitted by the deadline published in order to gain a mark. Work which is submitted after the deadline will be given a mark of zero. For further information on the submission of coursework and essay deadlines please see the list of essay questions/assignments and the School’s ‘Undergraduate Student Handbook 2012-2013’. The handbook also contains information regarding late submission of coursework.

Module Outline

With the debt crisis, rising inequality and unemployment, ecological degradation, extreme poverty among 40% of the world’s population, and resource-driven wars, capitalism has become once again the focus of intense critical scrutiny. Does it foster economic growth and protect individual freedom, as its proponents claim; or is it a destructive system out of control, as its detractors argue? Should the market be given even freer rein? Or should capitalism be reformed and restricted? Or should it be abolished and replaced altogether? Students taking this module will gain an understanding of capitalism and the normative debates raised by it. We will study a selection of texts, both historical and contemporary, from authors such as Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith, G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Theodor W. Adorno, Joseph Schumpeter, Luc Boltansky, Richard Sennett, and Antonio Negri.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the module students should be able to:

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explain the main theories, models and concepts applied in the analysis of capitalism; summarise normative debates about capitalism; explain and critically assess the arguments made by advocates and critics of capitalism.

By the end of the module, students should also have acquired a set of transferable skills, and in particular be able to:

define the task in which they are engaged and exclude what is irrelevant; seek and organise the most relevant discussions and sources of information; process a large volume of diverse and sometimes conflicting arguments; compare and evaluate different arguments and assess the limitations of their own position or

procedure; write and present verbally a succinct and precise account of positions, arguments, and their

presuppositions and implications; be sensitive to the positions of others and communicate their own views in ways that are

accessible to them; think 'laterally' and creatively - see interesting connections and possibilities and present these

clearly rather than as vague hunches; maintain intellectual flexibility and revise their own position if shown wrong; think critically and constructively.

Autumn Term:

There is no required textbook. We will be using the following collection of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:

Marx, K. 1977. Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [NB: later editions are fine too.]

However, you can also find their texts online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/date/index.htm

Week 1: Freshers’ Week

Week 2: IntroductionWe begin by considering what capitalism is and surveying the contested terrain of positions taken on it by defenders, reformers, and radical critics. We draw both on historical sources and recent developments.

Graeber, D. 2011. Debt: The First 5,000 Years, New York: Melville House Publishing.

Davis, M. 2001. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, London: Verso.

Fulcher, J. 2004. Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Klein, N. 2000. No Logo, New York: Picador.

Maddison, A. 2007. Contours of The World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mandeville, B. 1970. The Fable of the Bees [1714], edited with an introduction by Phillip Harth, London : Penguin.

Marx, K. and Engels, F. [1848]. The Communist Manifesto. [For example in Marx, K. 1977. Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 18. See also: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/date/index.htm]

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Muller, J.Z. 2002. The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Sayer, D. 1991. Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursus on Marx and Weber, London: Routledge.

Stiglitz, N. 2010. Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, London: Penguin.

Streeck, W. 2011. ‘The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism’, New Left Review 71: 5-29.

Streeck, W. 2012. ‘Markets and Peoples: Democratic Capitalism and European Integration’, New Left Review 73: 63-71.

Week 3: Adam Smith on ‘commercial society’ and political economyAdam Smith is often presented as the founding father of modern economic theory, and as someone who defended unrestricted free-market capitalism (or ‘commercial society’, as he called it). We investigate his views and uncover some of its complexities – including, as recent scholarship has highlighted, that he is more open to state intervention and market regulation, and more critical of capitalism than it is typically recognised.

Primary texts:

Smith, A. 1776, The Wealth of Nations, reprinted: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Smith, A., 1790, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell; reprinted D.D. Raphael and A.L. Macfie, eds., Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Secondary literature:

Evensky, J. 2005, Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fairlamb, H.L. 1996. ‘Adam Smith's Other Hand: A Capitalist Theory of Exploitation’, Social Theory and Practice 22.2: 193-223. [Only in the CMR.]

Fleischacker, S. 2004. On Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations": A Philosophical Companion, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Gallagher, S.E. 1998. The Rule of the Rich? Adam Smith's Argument against Political Power, University Park: Penn State University Press.

Gaus, Gerald F. 1983. ‘Public and Private Interests in Liberal Political Economy, Old and New’ in S.I. Benn and G.F. Gaus, eds., Public and Private in Social Life, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 183-221.

Herzog, L. 2011. ‘Higher and lower virtues in commercial society – Adam Smith and motivation crowding out’, Politics, Philosophy and Economics 10.4: 370-95. [Also in the CMR.]

McLean, I. 2006. Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian: an Interpretation for the Twenty-First Century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Mill, J.S. 1871. Principles of Political Economy, 7th edition, ed. W. Ashley [1909], reprinted New York: A.M. Kelley, 1976. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Muller, J.Z. 1993. Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Satz, D. 2007. ‘Liberalism, Economic Freedom, and the Limits of the Market’, Social Philosophy and Policy 24.1:120-40. [Also in the CMR.]

Werhane, P.H. 1991. Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism, New York: Oxford University Press.


Wilson, D. and Dixon, W. 2012. A History of Homo Economicus: The nature of the Moral in Economic Theory, London and New York: Routledge.

Week 4: Locke, Fichte, and Marx [Guest Lecture by Wayne Martin] One of the key issues in the context of capitalism and its criticism is private property. In this guest lecture, Wayne Martin will examine this issue by drawing on Locke, Fichte, Marx, and Waldron.

Primary Texts

*Fichte, J.G. 1796/7. Foundations of Natural Right, English trans. by M. Bauer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, §§9-12.

Locke, J. Second Treatise of Government, Chapter V: "Of Property".

Secondary Literature:

Fichte, J.G. 1792. Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation, English trans. by G. Green. New York (etc.): Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Neuhouser, F. 1994. ‘Fichte on the Relationship Between Right and Morality’, in Breazeale, D. and Rockmore, T., eds., Fichte: Historical Contexts, Contemporary Controversies, Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, pp. 158-80.

Waldron, J. 2002. God, Locke, and Equality: Christian foundations of John Locke's political thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Also available as e-book from the library.]

Waldron, J. 1985. ‘What is Private Property?’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 5.3: 313-49. [Also in the CMR.]

Week 5: Hegel on freedom, abstract right, and capitalismHegel recognises that capitalism related to an important dimension of freedom, but he also criticises it for overlooking other dimensions of freedom and leading to crises, if not regulated by the state and supplemented by other spheres of recognition and self-realisation (as well as welfare provision). Thus, he is one of the first reformist critics of capitalism.

Primary text:

Hegel, G.W.F. [1821]/(1991), Elements of the Philosophy of Right, ed. by A.W. Wood, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Anderson, J. 2001. ‘Hegel's Implicit View on How to Solve the Problem of Poverty: The Responsible Consumer and the Return of the Ethical to Civil Society’, in Williams, R.R., ed., Beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism: Studies in Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right', Albany: SUNY Press.

Hardimon, M.O. 1994. Hegel's Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Honneth, Axel, 1995. The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts, trans. J. Anderson, Oxford: Polity Press.

Honneth, Axel, 2010. The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory, trans. L. Lob, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Min, A. 1986. ‘Hegel on Capitalism and the Common Good’, Philosophy & Social Criticism 11: 39-61. [In the CMR.]


Neuhouser, F. 2000, Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Pelczynski, Z.A., ed., 1984, The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, esp. Chapters 9, 11-12, and 14.

Schmidt am Busch, H.-C. 2008. ‘Personal Respect, Private Property, and Market Economy: What Critical Theory Can Learn from Hegel’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 11.5: 573-86. [In the CMR.]

Wood, A.W. 1990, Hegel's Ethical Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, esp. Chapter 14.

Week 6: Marx’s critique of capitalism I: alienationKarl Marx stands out among the radical critics of capitalism, and we consider various aspects of his theory, starting with his earlier works and the charge of alienation. As part of this, we see that Marx sees capitalism as also an important advance over earlier social formation, and discuss how recent changes in work patterns might alter our assessment of Marx’s claims about capitalist production and alienation.

Primary texts:

*Marx, K. 1844. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Selections reprinted in Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 8. [See also: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/date/index.htm]

Marx, K. [written 1857]. Grundrisse. Selections reprinted Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 29.

Marx, K. & Engels, F. 1845. The Holy Family. Selections reprinted Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 12.

Marx, K. & Engels, F. [written 1845-6; published 1932]. The German Ideology. Selections reprinted in Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 14.


Althusser, L. 2005. For Marx, London: Verso.

Beck, U. 2008. The Brave New World of Work, Cambridge: Polity.

Boltansky, L. and Chiapello, E. 2005, The New Spirit of Capitalism [1999], London: Verso.

Brudney, D. 1998. Marx's attempt to leave philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Brudney, D. 2001, ‘Justifying a Conception of the Good Life: The Problem of the 1844 Marx’, Political Theory 29.3: 364-394. [Also in the CMR]

Cohen, G.A. 1974. ‘Marx's Dialectic of Labor’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 3: 235-61. [Also in the CMR.]

Doogan, K. 2009. New Capitalism?: the Transformation of Work, Cambridge: Polity.

Geras, N. 1983. Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend, London: Verso.

Leopold, D. 1997. The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lukes, S. 1994. ‘Alienation and Anomie’, in his Essays in Social Theory, Aldershot: Gregg Revivals.

Meszaros, I. 1970. Marx's Theory of Alienation, London: Merlin Press.

Ollman, B. 1971. Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 1976.



Sayers, S. 2011. Marx and Alienation: Essays on Hegelian Themes, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sennett, R. 2006. The Culture of the New Capitalism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Swain, D. 2012. Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory, London: Bookmarks.

Wood, A.W. 1981. Karl Marx, London: Routledge, Part One. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Introductory and background reading:

Hobsbawm, E. 2011. How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, London: Little, Brown.

McLellan, D. 1973. Karl Marx: His Life and Thought, London: Macmillan.

Thompson, E. P. 1963. The Making of the English Working Class, London: Penguin, revised edition 1980.

Wheen, F. 1999. Karl Marx, London: Fourth Estate.

Wolff, J. 2002. Why Read Marx Today?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Week 7: Marx’s critique of capitalism III: exploitation and justice.Finally, we critically scrutinise Marx’s claims about the exploitative nature of capitalism, and their normative status. Does Marx – known for his criticisms of appeals to morality and justice – offer an ethical critique, and if so, what kind of ethical critique?

Primary texts:

Marx, K. 1867. Capital Vol. I, selections in Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 32.

Marx, K. 1875. ‘Critique of “The Gotha Programme”’, reprinted in Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 40.

Marx, K. 1844. ‘On the Jewish Question’, reprinted in Selected Writings, ed. by D. McLellan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ch. 6.

Secondary Literature:

Arneson, R. 1981. ‘What’s Wrong with Exploitation’, Ethics 91.1: 207–27. [Also in the CMR.]

Cohen, G.A. 1988. History, Labour, and Freedom: Themes from Marx, Oxford: Clarendon Press; including ‘The Labour Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation’, reprinted from Philosophy & Public Affairs 8.4 (1979): 338-60 [also in the CMR]; and ‘The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom’, Philosophy & Public Affairs 12.1 (1983): 3-33 [Also in the CMR].

Cohen, G.A. 2000. If you’re an egalitarian, how come you’re so rich, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, esp. Chapter 6.

Castoriadis, C. 1978. ‘From Marx to Aristotle, from Aristotle to Us’, trans. by A. Arato, Social Research 45.4: 667-738.

Geras, N. 1985. ‘The Controversy About Marx and Justice’, New Left Review 1/150: 47-85. [Also in the CMR.]

Harvey, D. 2010. A Companion to Marx’s “Capital”, London: Verso.

Harvey, D. 1982. The Limits to Capital, London: Verso, updated edition 2007.

Lohmann, G. 1986. ‘Marx’s “Capital” and the Question of Normative Standards’, PRAXIS International 3: 353-72. [Only in the CMR.]


Elster, J. 1985. Making Sense of Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chapters 3-4.

Lukes, S. 1985. Marxism and Morality, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Miller, D. 1990. Market, State, and Community: Theoretical Foundations of Market Socialism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Miller, R. 1984. Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power, and History, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, esp. Chapters 1-2.

Reeve, A., ed., 1987. Modern Theories of Exploitation, London: Sage.

Roemer, J. 1984. ‘Exploitation, class, and property relations’, in T. Ball & J. Farr, eds., After Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 184-211.

Roemer, J. 1986. ‘New directions in the Marxian theory of exploitation and class’ and ‘Should Marxists Be Interested in Exploitation?’, in J. Roemer, ed., Analytical Marxism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 81-113.

Roemer, J. 1988. Free to lose: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Rubin, I.I. 1928. Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value, trans. by M. Samardzija and F. Perlman, Detroit: Black and Red Books, 1972.

Schwartz, J. 1995. ‘What’s Wrong with Exploitation?’, Noûs 29.2: 158-88. [In the CMR.]

Sweezy, P. 1942. The Theory of Capitalist Development, New York: Monthly Review Press.

Trotsky, L. et al. 1973, Their Morals and Ours [1938], New York: Pathfinder Press, 5th edition. [See also http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm]

Wood, A. 1981. Karl Marx, London: Routledge, Part III. [NB: The 2nd edition 2001 contains an additional chapter – on exploitation.]

Week 8: Reading Week: no lecture or classes unless notified otherwise by Fabian Freyenhagen.

Week 9: 20th/21st century defenders Not least in the wake of the experiences in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, defenders of capitalism hit back. This week, we discuss what the case they make for capitalism’s superiority over other socio-economic systems.

Becker, G. 1976. An Economic Approach to Human Behavior, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, esp. Chapters 1 and 13.

Cohen, G.A. 1005. Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Friedman, M. 1953. “The Methodology of Positive Economics,” in his Essays in positive economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-43.

Friedman, M. 1960. The Constitution of Freedom, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Friedman, M. 1962. Capitalism and Freedom, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, esp. Chapters 1-3, 6, 10, 12-13. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Gilder, G. 1981. Wealth and Poverty, New York: Basic Books, Part 1.

Rand, A. et al. 1967. Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal, London: Penguin.

Harvey, D. 2005. A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]


http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/morals/morals.htm

Hayek, F. 1944. The Road to Serfdom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Also available as e-book via the library website.]

Hayek, F.A. 1976. The Mirage of Social Justice, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Keen, S. 2011. Debunking Economics: The Emperor Dethroned, London/New York: Zed Books, [2001], revised and expanded 2nd edition.

Nozick, R. 1974. Anarchy, State and Utopia, New York: Basic Books.

O'Neill, J. 1989. ‘Markets, Socialism, and Information: A Reformulation of A Marxian Objection to the Market’, Social Philosophy and Policy 6: 200-10. [Also in the CMR].

Popper, K. 1945. The Open Society and its Enemies, Volume II: Hegel and Marx, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Sen, A.K. 1977. ‘Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioral Foundations of Economic Theory’, Philosophy & Public Affairs 6.: 317-44. [Also in the CMR.]

Smith, V.R. 1998. ‘Friedman, Liberalism and the Meaning of Negative Freedom’, Economics and Philosophy 14.1: 75-93.

Week 10: 20th/21st century reformersIn light of the Great Depression, various reforms of capitalism were proposed and, especially post-1945, enacted. While welfare capitalism and Keynesian economics subsequently came in for criticism and were rolled back again during the 1970s and ‘80s, reformist agendas live on and this week we consider their merits.

Beck, U 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, London (etc.): Sage.

Giddens, A.1994. Beyond Left and Right: Future of Radical Politics, Cambridge: Polity.

Giddens, A.1998. The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy, Cambridge: Polity.

Crouch, C. 2004. Post-Democracy, Cambridge: Polity.

Crouch, C. 2011. The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism, Cambridge: Polity.

Crouch, C. and Streeck, W., eds., 1997. Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, London: Sage.

Dale, G. 2010. Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market, Cambridge: Polity.

Habermas, J. 1973. Legitimation Crisis, English translation: London: Heinemann, 1976.

Habermas, J. 1981. Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. II, English translation: Cambridge, Polity, 1987.

Offe, C. 1984. Contradictions of the Welfare State, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Offe, C. 1985. Disorganized Capitalism, Cambridge: MIT Press.

Keynes, M. 1957. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, New York: Harper Perennial, 3rd edition, esp. Chapters 1-3, and 18-19.

Polanyi, K. 1944. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, reprinted: Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001.

Sandel, M. 2012. What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of the Market, London: Allen Lane.

Satz, D. 2010 Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Schumpeter, J. 1950. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. New York: Harper & Row, 3rd edition, esp. Chapters 5-14, esp. pp. 121-63.


Stiglitz, J. 2012. The Price of Inequality: The Avopidable Causes and Hidden Costs of Inequality, Allen Lane.

Tawney, R.H. 1938. Equality, London: Harper Collins.

Weber 1958. M. The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, esp. Chapters 2 and 5.

Weber, M. 1991. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, ed. by H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, 1991.

Wilkinson, R. and Pickett, K. 2009. The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, London: Allen Lane.

Week 11: 20th/21st century radical criticsFinally, we turn to renewals of radical criticisms of capitalism – from Marxist but also non-Marxists perspectives (for example, radical ecologists). Can and should we aim for a different social world?

Adorno, T.W. 1968. ‘Industrial Society or Late Capitalism?’, reprinted in his Can One Live after Auschwitz? – A Philosophical Reader, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. by R. Livingstone et al., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, Ch. 5.

Adorno, T.W. [written 1944]. ‘Reflections on Class Consciousness’, reprinted in his Can One Live after Auschwitz? – A Philosophical Reader, ed. R. Tiedemann, trans. by R. Livingstone et al., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, Ch. 4.

Bensaïd, D. 1995. Marx for Our Time: Adventures and Misadventures of a Critique, English translation by G. Eliot: London: Verso, 2002.

Chomsky, N. Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999.

Cohen, G.A. 2009. Why not socialism?, Princeton : Princeton University Press.

Douzinas, C. and Žižek, S., eds., 2009. The Idea of Communism, London: Seagull.

Hardt, M. and Negri, A. 2000. Empire, Harvard University Press.

Harvey, D. 2010. The Enigma of Capitalism and the Crisis of Capitalism, London: Profile Books

Hessel, S. 2010. Time for Outrage, English translation: London: Quartet Books, 2011.

Holloway, J. 2002. Change the World Without Taking Power, London/New York: Pluto Press.

Holloway, J. 2010. Crack Capitalism: Change the World Without Taking Power, London/New York: Pluto Press.

Honneth, A. and Hartmann, M., ‘Paradoxes of Capitalism’ (2004), Constellations 13.1 (2006): 41-58.

Mandel, E. 1972. Late Capitalism, trans. by Joris de Bres, London: Humanities Press.

Marcuse, H. 1968. One-Dimensional Man, London: Sphere Books edition, [1964].

Marcuse, H. 1969. An Essay on Liberation, London: Allen Lane.

Marcuse, H. 1972. Counterrevolution and Revolt, Boston, MA: Beacon Press.

Monbiot, G. 2003. The Age of Consent, London: Flamingo.

Hart, K., Laville, J.-L., and Cattani, A.D., eds., 2010. The Human Economy, Cambridge: Polity.

Wallerstein, I. 1979. The Capitalist World-Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Wallerstein, I. 1995. Historical Capitalism, with Capitalist Civilization. London: Verso.

Wright, E.O. 2001. ‘Compass Points: Towards A Socialist Alternative’, New Left Review 41: 94-124. [Also in the CMR.]


Summer Term

Week 30: Revision session for the Autumn term


SUBMISSION OF COURSEWORK

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ESSAY QUESTIONS

Autumn Term Essay

Deadline: 12.00 Thursday, 13 December, 2012Return date: 14 January, 2013

Answer one of the following questions:

1. Compare and contrast Smith’s and Hegel’s views of capitalism– which one do we have better reason to endorse?

2. Does freedom require support of free-market capitalism or opposition to it?

3. Is Marx’s theory of alienation defensible?

Second (Optional) Essay

Deadline: 12.00, Thursday, 9 May, 2013 No late coursework will be acceptedReturn date: 24 May, 2013


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