[2.28.13 - 3.21.14] Short Course Introducing Platypus
the history of marxism
Platypus introduction to the history of Marxism
Thursdays 6-8 pm
Group Study Room
- the room will change from week to week so please email us to get the exact room number.
Killam Library,
Dalhousie
Halifax, NSÂ
dalhousie@platypus1917.org
• required / + recommended  [/++ supplemental] readings
9 Jan (Short Course)
• 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)
16 Jan (Short Course)
• Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008)
+Â Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
• Cutrone, “Class consciousness (from a Marxist perspective) today” (2012)
23 Jan (Short Course)
• Leszek Kolakowski, “The concept of the Left” (1968)
• Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843)
4 Feb (TUESDAY - Short Course)
• Cutrone, “The Marxist hypothesis” (2010)
13 Feb
• Rosa Luxemburg, “The Crisis of German Social Democracy” Part 1 (1915)
• J. P. Nettl, “The German Social Democratic Party 1890–1914 as a Political Model” (1965)
[++ + James Joll, The Second International 1889–1914 (1966)]
20 Feb
• Cliff Slaughter, “What is Revolutionary Leadership?” (1960)
27 Feb
• Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
• Spartacist League, Lenin and the Vanguard Party (1978)
• Luxemburg, “The Russian Tragedy” (1918)
• Luxemburg, “Order Reigns in Berlin” (1919)
[++ Sebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918–19 (1968)]
13 Mar
Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
20 Mar
• Theodor Adorno, “Reflections on Class Theory” (1942)
+ Horkheimer and Adorno, "Discussion about Theory and Praxis" (AKA "Towards a New Manifesto?") (1956)
• Adorno, “Resignation” (1969)
