Columbia University (Spring, 2019): A Short Course in Marxism

When: Wednesdays 8-9pm
Where: Kent 522a

Week 1 - March 27th

• Max Horkheimer, “The little man and the philosophy of freedom” (pp. 50–52 from selections from Dämmerung,1926–31)
• Louis Menand, on Marx and Engels as philosophes of a Second Enlightenment
• Karl Marx, on “becoming” (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms

Week 2 - April 3rd* - starting @ 7 PM

Teach-in on the 1918 German Revolution by Richard Rubin. Some students from the University of Leipzig will be joining us for this event!

Week 3 - April 10th

• Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008)
+ Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
+ video of Communist University 2011 London presentation
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
• Cutrone, “Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today” (2012)

Week 4 - April 17th

• Leszek Kolakowski, “The concept of the Left” (1968)
• Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843)

Week 5 - April 24th

+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
• Cutrone, “The Marxist hypothesis” (2010)