Forum for kritisk teori at UiO organizes a two-days online seminar on Analytic Marxism, on July 20 and 21, starting at 13h on both days. The readings are:

Meeting 1: Explanations

G. A. Cohen. 2020. “Functional Explanation: In Marxism.” In Karl Marx’s Theory of History. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv105b973.15.

Elster, Jon. “Marxism, Functionalism, and Game Theory: The Case for Methodological Individualism.” Theory and Society (Amsterdam) 11, no. 4 (1982): 453–82. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162324

Meeting 2: Exploitation and freedom

Cohen, G. A. “The Labor Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation.” Philosophy & Public Affairs (Princeton, N.J) 8, no. 4 (1979): 338–60. 

Cohen, G. A. “The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom.” Philosophy & Public Affairs (Princeton, N.J) 12, no. 1 (1983): 3–33.

If you’d like to participate, please contact Sjur Sandvik Strøm (s.s.strom@ifikk.uio.no) as soon as possible.