$20
This 9-week course will explore certain key moments in the history of Western Philosophy from the Marxist dialectical materialist worldview. Its aim is to help the students enrich their understanding of the Marxist outlook and the philosophical background that contextualizes it.
Students will be required to read around 50 pages weekly. There is an optional paper students can turn in at the end of the semester to have published on the Institute’s website.
Starting the 5th of July, classes will be ran every Wednesday at 7pm CST for the following 8 weeks.
This is one in many courses that will be offered by the Midwestern Marx Institute's Marxism School.
The class will be limited to the first 30 sign ups.
It will be taught by Carlos L. Garrido. Carlos is a Cuban American PhD student and instructor in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (with an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution). His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, early 19th century American socialism, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. He is an editor in Midwestern Marx Institute for Marxist Theory and Political Analysis and in the Journal of American Socialist Studies. His popular writings have appeared in dozens of socialist magazines in various languages. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (esp. Cuba), he has appeared in dozens of radio and video interviews around the world. He is the author of The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism (2023) and also edited and introduced Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism (2022).