1. Specific economic formation of Latin American societies.
Specific economic formation of Latin American societies: Historical process, present and potientalities; specific determination of the national process of capital accumulation in the unity of agrarian and mining rent, public foreign debt and industrialization; working class and its political forms; expresions of these processes in Argentina and Brasil; methodologies for calculation and statistical estimation of relevant variables.
2. Global accumulation and the new international division of labour
Global unity and the national specific forms of the process of capital accumulation: Basis of the relation; forms of the international division of labor; the transformation of the materiality of labor and its effects on the economic structure and national and international political processes; critique of dependency and underdevelopment theories and of the theory of imperialism; crises and cycles of capital accumulation.
3. The critique of political economy
Critique of political economy: Value and form of value; capital as the concrete subject of the social life process; economic structure and legal and political superstructure; the socialization of private labor; the working class as revolutionary subject; profit rate; small-normal capital relationship and the critique of theories of imperfect competition and monopoly capital.
4. Scientific method
Scientific method; Dialectical method; critique of logical representation an its naturalization; historical determination of scientific method by the alienation of free consciousness in capital; foundations of mathematics.