Dear all!
Next week I will be running a class on Marxism and Marxist geography. Prior to the class please can you complete the following activities:
(i) watch this short video
In it, David Harvey uses Marxist thought to explain the 2008 financial crisis. As you watch the video ask yourselves: what tools does Marxism provide us to make sense of the world? What might be missing in the sort of explanations provide by the video?
(ii) read a short text written by Marx and his close friend and colleague Engles: The Communist Manifesto, available here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
When reading this consider: what is the main argument being made? What is its relationship to history and to geography? Is it still relevant today?
