London Summer Reading Group: From the 1st to the 2nd International


Meeting Mondays, 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)

Week 1: 20th June

• 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: 27th June

Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525–541

Marx, Programme of the Parti Ouvrier (1880)

• Karl Kautsky, The Class Struggle* (1892)

Week 3: 4th July

Kautsky,The Social Revolution (1902)

Week 4: 11th July

• Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, especially Chapters 3, 11 and 12 (1906)

Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism (1909)

Week 5: 18th July

Kautsky, The Road to Power* (1909)