From the First to the Second International

• * 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)