hey comrades, I am going to write my dissertation on Marx and Marxism and I’d appreciate some input from fellow Marxists on what topics could be interesting to write about
How are you writing a dissertation and needing to ask for ideas? Is this for a PhD program?
Undergrad 10k report so Im not sure if dissertation is the right word but my college has been calling it that
It would not be. This post makes much more sense now.
Like the other poster said it depends on the discipline, but for me I always think the most interesting thing is to try and integrate multiple social theories along their overlapping lines. Rather than trying to write up an overview of the entirety of Marxist thought you’d probably be better off grabbing a smaller idea and applying it. I study social movements which has a lot of “practical” theories of social action whereas things like Marxist theories are considered too large-scale to be thought of as practical for predicting individual level action. I’ve found a lot of purchase integrating Marxist meta-theoretical principles into the practical theories that predict for an individual’s participation in social movements.
