HIST 133 PZ -Capital in Context

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Capital in Context: From Marx to Piketty Karl Marx seemed dead and gone in 1990, after the Berlin Wall came down and the world witnessed the socalled “end of communism.” But the old ghosts are back–Russia on the rise, democracy questioned, inequalities reminiscent of the Gilded Age. One of those ghosts is Karl Marx, who has reappeared to haunt the present. But he wrote in the 19th century, for an audience of a different time and place. So the question arises: what remains relevant from his writings? What do we salvage and what do we discard? Reading him intensively, with an eye to present conundrums, and in concert with Thomas Piketty, we will attempt to answer some of those questions together.

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