New York
Wednesdays at 6:30pm beginning June 15
School of Visual Arts
380 2nd Ave, Room 804B
Chicago
School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Mondays 6pm
112 S Michigan Ave, Room 919
Houston
Sundays at 3:00 pm (ongoing)
University of Houston
MD Anderson Library (meet in the lobby)
London
Mondays at 6pm
Goldsmiths College, Richard Hoggart Building, Room 257
• required / * recommended reading
Marx readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978)
Recommended background readings
- Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940), Part II. Ch. 12–16 (from “Marx and Engels go back to writing history” to “Karl Marx dies at his desk”)
- James Joll, The Second International 1889–1914 (1966)
Week 1
- Karl Korsch, “The Marxism of the First International” (1924) • Karl Marx, Inaugural address to the First International (1864), pp. 512–519 • Ferdinand Lassalle, Open letter to the German workers’ movement (1863) • Mikhail Bakunin, A Critique of the German Social-Democratic Program (1870) • Bakunin, Marxism, Freedom and the State (1872)
Week 2
- Korsch, Introduction to Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1922) • Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525–541 • Marx, Programme of the Parti Ouvrier (1880) • Karl *Kautsky, The Class Struggle* (1892)
Week 3
• Kautsky,The Social Revolution (1902)
Week 4
• Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, especially Chapters 3, 11 and 12 (1906) • Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism (1909)
Week 5
• *Kautsky, The Road to Power* (1909)