Course Title: Marxist Political Economics
Course Code: 05003
Credit: 3
Teaching Hours: 48
Prerequisite: None
Overview
This course is about general political theory and is compulsory for undergraduate students. It teaches students an important part of the basic theories on Marxism. By the end of this course students could be able to hold the contents and main methods about Marxist Political Economics. The basic starting points and class standpoint when Marx analyzed social economic relation, and understand the inevitability of the social development from initial stage to advanced one. This owing to the objectivity of the economic operation. Students will understand better the economic phenomenon, economic regular pattern, the development trend of the economic basis, and the economic policies of the Party and governments in the course of socialist economic development.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to understand better and know:
l The object of study by the political economics
l The relation among the links of general procedure in the social production
l The relation between productivity and relation of production
l The objectivities and characters of economic regular pattern, the relation between human and economic regular pattern
l How to put the theories into practice, make application of the basic knowledge to analyze and study the practical economic problems
l The basic concept, theories and principles
l The basic economic system in the initial period of Socialism
l The distribution system of socialist individual incomes
l The relationship between the distribution according to one’s performance and distribution according to contributing Elements;
l The influence of economic globalization on the development of our economy；
l Economic globalization tends to be the objective tendency of development, get production socialized and economic relation internationalized;
l Economic globalization has brought opportunity as well as challenges to China’s economic development;
l The modern market system with characteristics of healthy, open, competitive and discipline;
Main Topics
l The two basic formations of social economy;
l The basic principle of commodity economy;
l The essence of capitalist production relation and its development period;
l The essence of capitalist production relation
l The future of the monopoly capitalist production relation.
l The development procedures in history
l Capital running
l The general principle of capital running
l The capital running in the monopoly period
l The international expanding of monopoly capitalist economy
l The essence of socialist production relation and the economic system
l The essence of socialist production relation
l The basic economic system in socialism initial period
l The individual income and distribution system in socialism initial period
l Socialist market economic system
l Microcosmic basis of socialist market economy
l The basic function of socialist market economy
l Mario control system for socialism market economy
l The security system for socialist market economy
l The Economic globalization and the economic relation international
l The emergence of and development of economic globalization
l The relation between the economic globalization and capitalist economy
l Economic globalization and the open to the outside world in China
Teaching Method
The course is taught in class basically. The heuristic teaching method and question and answers are adopted; students are encouraged to think critically. Interactions is also adopted in class between teachers and students, students are allowed to share part of the teaching as well; case teaching and multimedia teaching are also available.
Assessment
Case studying 10% (including group discussion)
Course work 10% (including attendance)
Mid-term Exam 30%
Final Exam 50% （Including presentation）
Textbooks
1) Principle of Marxist Political Economics for undergraduate students, edited by Division of ideological Morality and Social Science Research of Ministry of Education.
2) Principle of Marxist Political Economics the reference for the textbooks of higher learning edited by the higher educational institutions in Henan Province
References
1. Capital Theory written by Marx
2. Imperialism is the Advanced Stage of Capitalism written by Lenin
3. Work Selections of Deng Xiaoping written by Deng Xiaoping;
4. The Decision made by The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China about Economic System Reform
5. The Decision made by The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China about the Establishment of Socialism Market Economic System
6. The Chapters on Economy in the Reports delivered in the Twelfth to Sixteenth National Congresses of the Communist Party of China