Marxist Dialectics, Pt 3: 5 Interpretations of Marx
Channel: Communism and Dialectical Materialism
Date: 2020-05-16

Lecture 3 of Series of 3 on Marxist Dialectics by Thomas Weston, Presented at Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico, April 10, 2019.  
Discusses interpretations of Marx, based on the book Back to Marx, by Chinese scholar Zhang Yibing. Discusses the "Young Marx," "Western Marxism," capitalist Marxiology, Soviet interpretations and Althusser's "Rupture" viewpoints. Summarizes the development of Marx's ideas in the 1840s and 1850s. Explains key concepts like "alienation" and distinguishes historical and economic arguments from moral ones in Marx's dialectical development. (For a more extensive discussion of Althusser, see Pt. 2.)