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Saturdays 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Dome of Visions Inge Lehmanns Gade 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark (Map)
• required / + recommended reading
recommended book: Isaac Deutscher, Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays from Four Decades (Verso, 1984) [ * essays included in book]
recommended background reading: Spartacist League, Genesis of Pabloism (1972)
Week 1. The revolution betrayed | June 22, 2019
• Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going? (1936)
+ Trotsky, \“Stalinism and Bolshevism\” (1937)
+ Trotsky, letter to James P. Cannon of September 12, 1939
+ Trotsky, The USSR in War (1939)
Week 2. Stalinophilia and Stalinophobia | June 29, 2019
• Herbert Marcuse, 33 theses (1947)
• Shane Mage, \”\‘Pure democracy\’ or political revolution in Eastern Europe?\” excerpts from The Hungarian Revolution (1957) republished in Spartacist30 (Autumn 1980) pp. 10-16
• Michael Harrington, \“Marxism and democracy\” (1981)
Week 3. Crisis of Stalinism | July 6, 2019
(Recommended resource: Isaac Deutscher internet archive)
• Isaac Deutscher, \“Two Revolutions\” (1950) *
• Deutscher, \“Stalin, Mao and Korea\” (1950)
• Deutscher, \“Khrushchev on Stalin\” (1956)
Week 4. Whither Communism? | July 13, 2019
• Deutscher, \“Three trends in Communism\” (1959)
• Deutscher, \“From Stalin to Adam Smith\” (1959)
• Deutscher, \“The tragedy of the Polish Communist Party\” (1958) *
• Deutscher, 3 articles on Eastern Europe (letter to Gomulka, dialogue with Brandler, conversation with Trygve Lie) *
Week 5. Maoism? | July 20, 2019
• Deutscher, \“Three currents in Communism\” (1964)
• Deutscher, \“Maoism — its origin and outlook\” (1964) *
• Deutscher, \“Vietnam in perspective\” (1965)
• Deutscher, \“The meaning of the \‘Cultural Revolution\’\” (1966) *
Week 6. 50 years of the USSR | July 27, 2019
• Deutscher, The Unfinished Revolution: Russia 1917-67 (1967)
Week 7. Stalinism and the New Left | August 2, 2019
• Deutscher, \“Marxism in our time\” (1965) *
• Deutscher, \“Marxism and the New Left\” (1967)