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:  

• It's kind of expensive to visit Marx's grave

• Marx and Engels liked to drink beer, lots of beer

• Karl Marx on a game show!

• Maybe that's his maid?

  • "Roughly a third of American voters think that the Marxist slogan 'From each according to his ability to each according to his need' appears in the Constitution."  The New Yorker, November 7, 2016

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

• Moscow 1941 (Scary!)

• Moscow 1961 (Scary!)

• Poland 1983 (Brave!)