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Introduction to Revolutionary Marxism (2015)

Platypus primary Marxist reading group (the continuation of What is the Left? What is Marxism?)

Room 318 Student Union Building, Dalhousie University
Tuesdays 6–8:30PM
contact: dalhousie@platypus1917.org

 Week 13. Revolutionary leadership | Jan. 27
Week 14. Reform or revolution? | Feb. 3
Week 15. Lenin and the vanguard party | Feb. 10
Week 16. What is to be done? | Feb. 17
Week 17. Mass strike and social democracy | Feb. 24
Week 18. Permanent revolution | Mar. 3
Week 19. State and revolution | Mar. 10
Week 20. Imperialism | Mar. 17
Week 21. Failure of the revolution | Mar. 24
Week 22. Retreat after revolution | Mar. 31
Weeks 23–25. Apr. 7–Apr. 21 (exam break)
Week 26. Dialectic of reification | Apr. 28
  • Lukács, “The Standpoint of the Proletariat” (1923)
Week 27. Lessons of October | May 5
Week 28. Trotskyism | May 12
Week 29. The authoritarian state | May 19
  • Friedrich Pollock, “State Capitalism” (1941)
  • Max Horkheimer, “The Authoritarian State” (1942)
Week 30. On the concept of history | May 26
Week 31. Reflections on Marxism | Jun. 2
Week 32. Theory and practice | Jun. 9