Class description: In chapter 15, we look at why machinery provides the technical foundations on which the capitalist mode of production--which has to do with the transferring of the worker's skill and knowledge to...
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 5 (The working day and relative surplus-value)
Class description: In this class we continue our investigation into exploitation (i.e., the production of surplus-value), beginning with the struggle over the commodity of labor-power and the contradiction between its...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 4 (Capital and labor-power)
Class description: In this class we get at the first definitions of capital, labor-power, and surplus-value. Picking up on the introduction of money into the exchange process and the contradictions between use-value and...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 3 (Exchange and money)
Class description: In class 3, we take up exchange and money, where the C-M-C circuit makes its first appearance. We look at how money transforms and arises out of the exchange process and some of the contradictions inherent...
How will the police be abolished? A Marxist perspective
12 points on the U.S. state and the necessity of revolution 1. The Party for Socialism and Liberation stands for the overthrow, dismantling and complete replacement of the core institutions of the capitalist state, which are the “special bodies of armed men,” namely...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 2 (Commodities)
Class description: In our second class, we cover the first chapter on "commodities," where Marx begins laying the conceptual building blocks for his investigation. We cover use-value, exchange-value, and value, the two-fold...
From rebellion to revolution
Editorial note: This article was originally published on Liberation News. Introduction A profound rebellion against racism has been sweeping the country for a month. Millions have taken to the streets in every part of the country, shaking public opinion. Elite...
Marx’s “Capital:” Class 1
Class description: The first class in our course on Volume 1 of Marx's Capital provides an introduction to the structure of the course and the book overall. We discuss the various prefaces and afterwords, focusing in...
70 years too long: The struggle to end the Korean War
Editor’s note For the 70th anniversary of the official beginning of the Korean War, Liberation School interviewed the People’s Democracy Party, a revolutionary workers’ party in South Korea, to get their perspective on the war and the prospects for peace. The voices...