Economics 201: Karl Marx

Economics 201 - Karl Marx

Lecture slides

Entrepreneurship options at Northwestern

    • The Garage

    • The Farley Center

    • Of course, sometimes striking out on your own path doesn't end so well. (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Haymarket Square - Chicago, May 4, 1886

  • The "Marx Ratio" from The New York Times (May 21, 2018)

  • The Dramas of Haymarket By the excellent NU American Studies Prof. Carl Smith. "The Dramas of Haymarket" is a vast but accessible compilation of information that is deliberately presented as a five-act tragedy with prologue and epilogue.

  • Homicide in Chicago Great newspaper clippings about the "anarchists!"

  • Digital History

    • To quote: An explosion in Chicago in 1886 helped to shift the labor movement toward "bread-and-butter" unionism.

    • On May 1, 1886, thousands of people in Chicago began demonstrations in behalf of an eight-hour workday. The marchers' slogan was, "Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will."

    • On May 4, 1886, a deadly confrontation between police and protesters erupted at Chicago's Haymarket Square. A labor strike was in progress at the McCormick farm equipment works, and police and Pinkerton security guards had shot several workers.

  • Wikipedia is great on this Nice picture of the memorials in Chicago

For interest:

  • It's best if workers don't realize the degree of surplus value (The Washington Post, July 6, 2012)

  • The Reserve Army of the Unemployed seems to be about used up in China (New York Times, July 12, 2010)

For fun:

For scary: What's May Day without a parade?