June 5 – August 14, 2010
Saturdays 1–4PM at:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave. room 707
Readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., *Marx-Engels Reader* (Norton 2nd ed., 1978) (* at marxists.org)
June 5
Karl Marx on the history of his opinions (from Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy), pp. 3–6
Marx, To make the world philosophical, pp. 9–11
Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing, pp. 12–15
Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, pp. 143–145
June 12
Marx, On The Jewish Question, pp. 26–52
June 19
Marx, The coming upheaval see bottom of section, beginning with “Economic conditions had first transformed the mass”, pp. 218–219
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, pp. 469–500
Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League, pp. 501–511
June 26
The tactics of social democracy (Engels’s introduction to Marx, The Class Struggles in France), pp. 556–573
Marx, from The Class Struggles in France 1848–50, pp. 586–593
July 3
[break for Independence Day weekend]
July 10
Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, pp. 594–617
July 17
Marx, On imperialism in India, 653–664 (available online as The British Rule in India and The Future Results of British Rule in India)
Marx and Engels, Europocentric world revolution, pp. 676–677 (available online as Marx to Engels October 8, 1858 and Engels to Kautsky September 12, 1882)
July 24
Marx, The Civil War in France, pp. 618–652
July 31
Marx, Inaugural address to the First International, pp. 512–519
Karl Korsch, The Marxism of the First International *
August 7
Korsch, Introduction to Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme *
Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525–541
August 14
Max Horkheimer, “The Authoritarian State” (1940) (in The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, eds. Andrew Arato and Eike Gebhardt, pp. 95–117)
August 28
Vladimir Lenin, “Karl Marx” (1914)