- * required / • recommended reading
Week 1
* epigraphs on modern history and freedom by Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels) and Karl Marx, on “becoming” (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58)
* Max Horkheimer, “The little man and the philosophy of freedom” (pp. 50–52 from selections from Dämmerung, 1926–31)
Week 2
- * Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008)
• Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
• video of Communist University 2011 London presentation
- * Cutrone, “Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today” (2012)
Week 3
* Leszek Kolakowski, “The concept of the Left” (1968)
* Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843)
Week 4
- * Cutrone, “The Marxist hypothesis” (2010)