Marx's Critique of Political Economy and the Global Crisis Today

Karl Marx was simultaneously one of the founders and one of the most important critics of the modern social sciences. All of the social sciences and humanities today draw widely from his work. At the core of Marx’s published work is his analysis of capitalism: Volume One of Capital, published in 1867. Capital defined his labor theory of value, which Marx drew from Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and the whole of classical political economy. This symposium draws together leading scholars from all over the world who have been applying the Marxian analytical apparatus — including his labor theory of value — to decipher and understand the current global economic and political crisis.

This event is FREE and open to the public except the Dinner and Plenary session featuring Silvia Federici, for which there is a fee.  For more information and to register, please email hofculctr[at]hofstra.edu.

CONFERENCE CO-DIRECTORS

Conrad Herold, PhD
Department of Economics
Hofstra University

Marc Silver, PhD
Department of Sociology
Hofstra University

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Reginald Andre

David Harvey
Distinguished Professor , The Graduate Center, CUNY;
Author of Limits to Capital, 1982

Silvia Federici
Professor Emerita, Hofstra University;
Author of Caliban and the Witch, 2004

Harry M. Cleaver
Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin;
Author of Reading Capital Politically, 1979

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David Harvey

Dr. David Harvey, who is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).  He is one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences.  He is the author of numerous books, including the ground-breaking Social Justice and the City (1973), and The Limits of Capital (1982).  His more recent books include The Enigma of Capital (2010), and Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2015).  He is also the author of countless articles in the areas of social theory, Marxist analysis, cultural anthropology, political economy, and geography.

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Silvia Federici

Dr. Silvia Federici, who is a widely recognized feminist activist and scholar.  She is a leading  feminist critic of a Marxian analysis that does not recognize the role of unpaid work in the sphere of social reproduction.  In 1972 she was one of the co-founders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the pivotal Wages For Housework campaign.  She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo and was Professor of Political Philosophy and International Studies at New College, Hofstra University.  In the 1980s she spent several years teaching at Port Harcourt University in Nigeria.  Among her many publications are Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others" (1995), edited by Silvia Federici, and the widely cited book Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation, 2004.  A recent collection of several of her previously published essays, written over four decades, was released as Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist   Struggle by PM Press in 2012.

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Harry M. Cleaver

Dr. Harry M. Cleaver, who is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin.  Cleaver received his PhD from Stanford University in 1975, and taught in the economics department of UT-Austin from 1976 until his retirement in 2012.  He is best known as the American articulator of what he called Autonomist Marxism—a reading of Marx that Cleaver argues restores Marx's original critique of capital's central dynamic as the endless imposition of work.  Cleaver's early book, Reading Capital Politically, first published in 1979 with a second edition of 2000 and a third edition in preparation, is a systematic exposition of Chapter one of Volume one of Marx's Capital.  Cleaver's book has been widely translated and republished and had the distinction of being banned by the military dictatorship of South Korea and the apartheid regime of South Africa.  Cleaver has published several important contributions to Marxian theory.  His latest book, Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization, will be released by AK Press of San Francisco in April of 2017.

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