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Tuesdays
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
20 Kingsway
Room 2.02
(map)
I. What is the Left? â What is Marxism?
⢠required / + recommended reading
Marx and Engels readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978)
Week 1. What is the Left? I. Capital in history | Room KSW2.02 | Oct. 1, 2019
Whoever dares undertake to establish a peopleâs institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature, of transforming each individual, who by himself is a complete and solitary whole, into a part of a larger whole, from which, in a sense, the individual receives his life and his being, of substituting a limited and mental existence for the physical and independent existence. He has to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men.
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract (1762)
⢠Max Horkheimer, "The little man and the philosophy of freedom" (1926â31)
⢠epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857â58), and Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908)
+ Robert Pippin, "On Critical Theory" (2004)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠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, "The Marxist hypothesis" (2010)
⢠Cutrone, âClass consciousness (from a Marxist persective) todayâ
+ G.M. Tamas, "Telling the truth about class" [HTML] (2007)
Week 1.i. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society | Room KSW2.02 | Oct. 8, 2019
⢠Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view" and "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns" (1819)
+ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the origin of inequality (1754)
+ Rousseau, selection from On the social contract (1762)
Week 1.ii. Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Hegel: Freedom in history | Room KSW2.02 | Oct. 15, 2019
⢠G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1831) [HTML] [PDF pp. 14-128] [Audiobook]
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
Week 2. What is the Left? II. Utopia and critique | Room KSW2.02 | Oct. 22, 2019
⢠Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (1926â31)
⢠Adorno, âImaginative Excessesâ (1944â47)
⢠Leszek Kolakowski, âThe concept of the Leftâ (1968)
⢠Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839â41), pp. 9â11
⢠Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12â15
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Week 3. What is Marxism? I. Socialism | Room KSW2.02 | Oct. 29, 2019
⢠Marx, selections from Economic and philosophic manuscripts (1844), pp. 70â101
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
⢠Marx and Friedrich Engels, selections from the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), pp. 469-500
⢠Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850), pp. 501â511
LSE Reading Week Break | Nov. 4 - 8, 2019
Week 4. What is Marxism? II. Revolution in 1848 | Room KSW2.02 | Nov. 12, 2019
⢠Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847) and Class struggle and mode of production (letter to Weydemeyer, 1852), pp. 218-220
⢠Engels, The tactics of social democracy (Engels's 1895 introduction to Marx, The Class Struggles in France), pp. 556â573
⢠Marx, selections from The Class Struggles in France 1848â50 (1850), pp. 586â593
⢠Marx, selections from The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), pp. 594â617
Week 5. What is Marxism? III. Bonapartism | Room KSW2.02 | Nov. 19, 2019
+ Karl Korsch, "The Marxism of the First International" (1924)
⢠Marx, Inaugural address to the First International (1864), pp. 512â519
⢠Marx, selections from The Civil War in France (1871, including Engels's 1891 Introduction), pp. 618â652
+ Korsch, Introduction to Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1922)
⢠Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525â541
⢠Marx, Programme of the Parti Ouvrier (1880)
Week 6. What is Marxism? IV. Critique of political economy | Room KSW2.02 | Nov. 26, 2019
The fetish character of the commodity is not a fact of consciousness; rather it is dialectical, in the eminent sense that it produces consciousness. . . . [P]erfection of the commodity character in a Hegelian self-consciousness inaugurates the explosion of its phantasmagoria.
â Theodor W. Adorno, letter to Walter Benjamin, August 2, 1935
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
⢠Marx, selections from the Grundrisse (1857â61), pp. 222â226, 236â244, 247â250, 276â293 ME Reader pp. 276-281
⢠Marx, Capital Vol. I, Ch. 1 Sec. 4 "The fetishism of commodities" (1867), pp. 319â329
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Week 7. What is Marxism? V. Reification | Room KSW2.02 Dec. 3, 2019
⢠Georg LukĂĄcs, âThe phenomenon of reificationâ (Part I of âReification and the consciousness of the proletariat,â History and Class Consciousness, 1923)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Week 8. What is Marxism? VI. Class consciousness | Room KSW2.02 | Dec. 10, 2019
⢠LukĂĄcs, âClass Consciousnessâ (1920), Original Preface (1922), âWhat is Orthodox Marxism?â (1919), History and Class Consciousness (1923)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Marx, Preface to the First German Edition and Afterword to the Second German Edition (1873) of Capital (1867), pp. 294â298, 299â302
Week 10. What is Marxism? VII. Ends of philosophy | Room KSW2.02 | Dec. 17, 2019
⢠Korsch, âMarxism and philosophyâ (1923)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839â41), pp. 9â11
+ Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12â15
+ Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), pp. 143â145
Winter break readings
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
+ Sebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918â19 (1968)
+ Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940), Part II. Ch. (1â4,) 5â10, 12â16; Part III. Ch. 1â6
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
+ James Joll, The Second International 1889â1914 (1966)
WinterâSpring 2020
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism
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Wednesdays
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Van Pelt Library
Class of '68 Seminar Room
(map)
New attendants encouraged.
Direct questions to bkosko@sass.upenn.edu
I. What is the Left? â What is Marxism?
⢠required / + recommended reading
Marx and Engels readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978)
Week F. Radical bourgeois philosophy I. Rousseau: Crossroads of society | Sep. 4, 2019
Whoever dares undertake to establish a peopleâs institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature, of transforming each individual, who by himself is a complete and solitary whole, into a part of a larger whole, from which, in a sense, the individual receives his life and his being, of substituting a limited and mental existence for the physical and independent existence. He has to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men.
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract (1762)
⢠Max Horkheimer, "The little man and the philosophy of freedom" (1926â31)
⢠epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857â58), and Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908)
+ Robert Pippin, "On Critical Theory" (2004)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) PDFs of preferred translation (5 parts): [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
⢠Rousseau, selection from On the Social Contract (1762)
Week G. Radical bourgeois philosophy II. Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations (part 1) | Sep. 11, 2019
⢠Adam Smith, selections from The Wealth of Nations
Volume I [PDF]
Introduction and Plan of the Work
Book I: Of the Causes of ImprovementâŚ
I.1. Of the Division of Labor
I.2. Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour
I.3. That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market
I.4. Of the Origin and Use of Money
I.6. Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities
I.7. Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities
I.8. Of the Wages of Labour
I.9. Of the Profits of Stock
Book III: Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
III.1. Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
III.2. Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire
III.3. Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire
III.4. How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country
Week H. Radical bourgeois philosophy III. Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations (part 2) | Sep. 18, 2019
⢠Smith, selections from The Wealth of Nations
Volume II [PDF]
IV.7. Of Colonies
Book V: Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
V.1. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
Week I. Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. What is the Third Estate? | Sep. 25, 2019
⢠AbbÊ Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789)
+ Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1732)
Week J. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society | Oct. 2, 2019
⢠Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view" and "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns" (1819)
+ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the origin of inequality (1754)
+ Rousseau, selection from On the social contract (1762)
Week K. Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Hegel: Freedom in history | Oct. 9, 2019
⢠G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1831) [HTML] [PDF pp. 14-128] [Audiobook]
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
Week 1. What is the Left? I. Capital in history | Oct. 16, 2019
Whoever dares undertake to establish a peopleâs institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature, of transforming each individual, who by himself is a complete and solitary whole, into a part of a larger whole, from which, in a sense, the individual receives his life and his being, of substituting a limited and mental existence for the physical and independent existence. He has to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men.
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract (1762)
⢠Max Horkheimer, "The little man and the philosophy of freedom" (1926â31)
⢠epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857â58), and Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908)
+ Robert Pippin, "On Critical Theory" (2004)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠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, "The Marxist hypothesis" (2010)
⢠Cutrone, âClass consciousness (from a Marxist persective) todayâ
+ G.M. Tamas, "Telling the truth about class" [HTML] (2007)
Week 2. What is the Left? II. Utopia and critique | Oct. 23, 2019
⢠Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (1926â31)
⢠Adorno, âImaginative Excessesâ (1944â47)
⢠Leszek Kolakowski, âThe concept of the Leftâ (1968)
⢠Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839â41), pp. 9â11
⢠Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12â15
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Week 3. What is Marxism? I. Socialism | Oct. 30, 2019
⢠Marx, selections from Economic and philosophic manuscripts (1844), pp. 70â101
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
⢠Marx and Friedrich Engels, selections from the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), pp. 469-500
⢠Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850), pp. 501â511
Week 4. What is Marxism? II. Revolution in 1848 | Nov. 6, 2019
⢠Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847) and Class struggle and mode of production (letter to Weydemeyer, 1852), pp. 218-220
⢠Engels, The tactics of social democracy (Engels's 1895 introduction to Marx, The Class Struggles in France), pp. 556â573
⢠Marx, selections from The Class Struggles in France 1848â50 (1850), pp. 586â593
⢠Marx, selections from The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), pp. 594â617
Week 5. What is Marxism? III. Bonapartism | Nov. 13, 2019
+ Karl Korsch, "The Marxism of the First International" (1924)
⢠Marx, Inaugural address to the First International (1864), pp. 512â519
⢠Marx, selections from The Civil War in France (1871, including Engels's 1891 Introduction), pp. 618â652
+ Korsch, Introduction to Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1922)
⢠Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525â541
⢠Marx, Programme of the Parti Ouvrier (1880)
Week 6. What is Marxism? IV. Critique of political economy | Nov. 20, 2019
The fetish character of the commodity is not a fact of consciousness; rather it is dialectical, in the eminent sense that it produces consciousness. . . . [P]erfection of the commodity character in a Hegelian self-consciousness inaugurates the explosion of its phantasmagoria.
â Theodor W. Adorno, letter to Walter Benjamin, August 2, 1935
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
⢠Marx, selections from the Grundrisse (1857â61), pp. 222â226, 236â244, 247â250, 276â293 ME Reader pp. 276-281
⢠Marx, Capital Vol. I, Ch. 1 Sec. 4 "The fetishism of commodities" (1867), pp. 319â329
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Week 7. 2019 U.S. Thanksgiving break | Nov. 27, 2019
⢠Georg LukĂĄcs, âThe phenomenon of reificationâ (Part I of âReification and the consciousness of the proletariat,â History and Class Consciousness, 1923)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Winter break readings
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
+ Sebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918â19 (1968)
+ Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940), Part II. Ch. (1â4,) 5â10, 12â16; Part III. Ch. 1â6
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
+ James Joll, The Second International 1889â1914 (1966)
Week 8. What is Marxism? V. Reification | Dec. 4, 2019
⢠Georg LukĂĄcs, âThe phenomenon of reificationâ (Part I of âReification and the consciousness of the proletariat,â History and Class Consciousness, 1923)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
Week 9. What is Marxism? VI. Class consciousness | Dec. 11, 2019
⢠LukĂĄcs, âClass Consciousnessâ (1920), Original Preface (1922), âWhat is Orthodox Marxism?â (1919), History and Class Consciousness (1923)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Marx, Preface to the First German Edition and Afterword to the Second German Edition (1873) of Capital (1867), pp. 294â298, 299â302
Week 10. What is Marxism? VII. Ends of philosophy | Dec. 18, 2019
⢠Korsch, âMarxism and philosophyâ (1923)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839â41), pp. 9â11
+ Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12â15
+ Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), pp. 143â145
Winter break readings
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
+ Sebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918â19 (1968)
+ Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940), Part II. Ch. (1â4,) 5â10, 12â16; Part III. Ch. 1â6
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
+ James Joll, The Second International 1889â1914 (1966)
WinterâSpring 2020
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism
Die historischen Wurzeln der Linken und des Marxismus liegen in den bĂźrgerlichen Revolutionen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts und deren Krise im 19. Jahrhundert. Der Lesekreis versucht diesen geschichtlichen Hintergrund durch die LektĂźre von Texten von Marx und der radikalen bĂźrgerlichen Philosophie der Aufklärung herauszuarbeiten. Durch Texte von Autoren wie Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Georg LukĂĄcs, Karl Korsch und Leszek KoĹakowski versuchen wir, das Problem des politischen Bewusstseins der Linken im 20. Jahrhundert, das bis heute prägend bleibt, zu beleuchten.
Die Texte werden zu Hause gelesen und beim Lesekreis besprochen. Kein Vorwissen ist nĂśtig und Einstieg jederzeit mĂśglich. Wir freuen uns Ăźber neue Gesichter.
⢠vorausgesetzte Texte
+ zusätzliche Texte
Zeit: Ab 23. Oktober jeden Mittwoch 18-21 Uhr
Ort: Frankfurt, Campus Westend, IG-Farbengebäude, IG 2.501
1. Woche | EinfĂźhrung: Das Kapital in der Geschichte | 23.10.2019
⢠Max Horkheimer: âDer kleine Mann und die Philosophie der Freiheitâ, in: Dämmerung (1926-31), S.360
⢠epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson), Karl Marx (on âbecomingâ â aus: Grundrisse 1857-58) and Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke: âArchaischer Torso Apollosâ (1908)
+ Robert Pippin âOn Critical Theoryâ (2004)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠Chris Cutrone: âDas Kapital in der Geschichteâ (2008)
+ Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
+ video of communist University 2011 London presentation
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
⢠Cutrone: âThe Marxist hypothesisâ (2010)'
⢠Cutrone: âKlassenbewusstsein (aus einer marxistischen Perspektive) heuteâ (2012)
+ G.M. Tamas, "Telling the truth about class"[HTML] (2007)
2. Woche | Was ist die Linke? â Utopie und Kritik | 30.10.2019
Max Horkheimer, AuszĂźge aus: Dämmerung (1926â31), S. 360
⢠âUmschlag von Gedankenâ, S. 340-341
⢠âSkepsis und Moralâ, S. 341-344
⢠âDiskussion Ăźber die Revolutionâ, S.346-349
⢠âDer kleine Mann und die Philosophie der Freiheitâ, S.360-363
⢠âIndikationâ, S.389
⢠âSozialismus und Ressentimentâ, S.391-392
⢠âDer Fortschrittâ, S.418-419
⢠âDer Idealismus des Revolutionärsâ, S.419-420
⢠Theodor W. Adorno: âAusschweifungâ (1944â47) (GS4:297-300, im Anhang aus: Minima Moralia)
⢠Leszek Kolakowski: âDer Sinn des Begriffes âLinkeââ (1968)
⢠Karl Marx, AuszĂźge aus seiner Doktordissertation (1839â41)
⢠Marx, Brief an Arnold Ruge (September 1843)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
3. Woche | I. Was ist Marxismus? â Sozialismus | 06.11.2019
Karl Marx, AuszĂźge aus: Ăkonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte (1844)
⢠âDie entfremdete Arbeitâ
⢠âPrivateigentum und Kommunismusâ
⢠âBedĂźrfnis, Produktion und Arbeitsteilungâ (exklusiv: âDie Grundrenteâ)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
⢠Marx und Friedrich Engels: âManifest der Kommunistischen Parteiâ (1848) [exklusiv: âIII. Sozialistische und kommunistische Literaturâ]
⢠Karl Marx: "Strikes und Arbeiterkoalitionen", aus: Das Elend der Philosophie (1847) [§5., im zweiten Kapitel]
4. Woche | II. Was ist Marxismus? â Die Revolution von 1848 | 13.11.2019
⢠Marx: âAnsprache der ZentralbehĂśrde an den Bund vom Märzâ (1850)
⢠Marx, Brief an Joseph Weydemeyer (5.März 1852) [MEW 28, S.503-509]
⢠Engelsâ Einleitung zu Karl Marxâ: Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich 1848 bis 1850 (1895)
⢠Marx, âTeil I: Die Juniniederlage 1848â, aus: Die Klassenkämpfe in Frankreich 1848 bis 1850 (1850)
⢠Marx, Auszßge aus: Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Napoleon (1852) [Teil I und VII]
5. Woche | III. Was ist Marxismus? â Bonapartismus | 20.11.2019
+ Karl Korsch: âDer Marxismus der Ersten Internationaleâ (1924)
⢠Karl Marx: âInauguraladresse der Internationalen Arbeiter-Assoziationâ (1864)
⢠Marx, AuszĂźge aus: Der BĂźrgerkrieg in Frankreich (1871) [Teil III und IV; inklusive Engelsâ Einleitung von 1891]
+ Korsch: âEinleitung zu Marxâ Kritik des Gothaer Programmsâ (1922)
⢠Marx: âKritik des Gothaer Programmsâ (1875)
⢠Marxâ Einleitung zum Programm der franzĂśsischen Arbeiterpartei (1880) [MEW 19: Die Einleitung findet ihr auf S.238 und das Programm selbst in den Anmerkungen (Nr. 151), auf den Seiten 570-71.]
6. Woche | IV. Was ist Marxismus? â Kritik der Politischen Ăkonomie | 27.11.2019
âDer Fetischcharakter der Ware ist keine Tatsache des BewuĂtseins sondern dialektisch in dem emminenten Sinne, daĂ er BewuĂtsein produziert. [âŚ] [D]ie Vollendung des Warencharakters in einem Hegelschen SelbstbewuĂtsein die Sprengung der Phantasmagorie inauguriert.â
â Theodor W. Adorno, in einem Brief an Walter Benjamin, 2.-4. August 1935
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
⢠Karl Marx, Auszßge aus: Grundrisse (1857-1861)
⢠Marx: "Der Fetischcharakter der Ware und sein Geheimnis", aus: Das Kapital Bd. I (1867) [MEW 23, S.85-98; Kapiel 1, Teil 4]
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
7. Woche | V. Was ist Marxismus? â Verdinglichung | 04.12.2019
⢠Georg LukĂĄcs: "Das Phänomen der Verdinglichung" (I. Abschnitt des Kapitels: âDie Verdinglichung und das Bewusstsein des Proletariatsâ), in: Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
8. Woche | VI. Was ist Marxismus? â Klassenbewusstsein | 11.12.2019
⢠LukĂĄcs: âVorwortâ von 1922, âWas ist orthodoxer Marxismus?â (1919) und âKlassenbewusstseinâ (1920), in: Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein (1923)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Karl Marx, âVorwortâ zur ersten Auflage des Kapital Bd. I (1867) und âNachwortâ zur zweiten Auflage (1873)
9. Woche | VII. Was ist Marxismus? â Das Ende der Philosophie | 18.12.2019
⢠Karl Korsch: âMarxismus und Philosophieâ (1923), S.84-160
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Karl Marx, AuszĂźge aus seiner Doktordissertation (1839â41)
+ Marx, Brief an Arnold Ruge (September 1843)
+ Marx âThesen Ăźber Feuerbachâ (1845)
HintergrundlektĂźre fĂźr die Weihnachtspause (23.12.-11.01.2020)
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z: Lenin fßr Anfänger (1977)
+ Sebastian Haffner: âDie deutsche Revolution 1918/19â (1968) [ PDF]
+ Edmund Wilson: âTo the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of Historyâ (1940), Part II. Ch. (1â4,) 5â10, 12â16; Part III. Ch. 1â6
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans: âTrotzki fĂźr Anfängerâ (1980)
+ James Joll: âThe Second International 1889â1914â (1966)
10. Woche | I. BĂźrgerlich-Radikale Philosophie: Rousseau | 15.01.2020
"Wer den Mut besitzt, einem Volke Einrichtungen zu geben, muĂ sich imstande fĂźhlen, gleichsam die menschliche Natur umzuwandeln, jedes Individuum, das fĂźr sich ein vollendetes und einzeln bestehendes Ganze ist, zu einem Teile eines grĂśĂeren Ganzen umzuschaffen, aus dem dieses Individuum gewissermaĂen erst Leben und Wesen erhält; die Beschaffenheit des Menschen zu seiner eigenen Kräftigung zu verändern und an die Stelle des leiblichen und unabhängigen Daseins, das wir alle von der Natur empfangen haben, ein nur teilweises und geistiges Dasein zu setzen. Kurz, er muĂ dem Menschen die ihm eigentĂźmlichen Kräfte nehmen, um ihn mit anderen auszustatten, die seiner Natur fremd sind und die er ohne den Beistand anderer nicht zu benutzen versteht."
â Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Der Gesellschaftsvertrag (1762)
+ Max Horkheimer: âDer kleine Mann und die Philosophie der Freiheitâ, in: Dämmerung (1926â31), S.360
+ epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson), Karl Marx (on âbecomingâ â aus: Grundrisse 1857-58) and Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke: âArchaischer Torso Apollosâ (1908)
+ Robert Pippin âOn Critical Theoryâ (2004)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠Jean-Jacques Rousseau: âAbhandlung Ăźber den Ursprung und die Grundlagen der Ungleichheit unter den Menschenâ (1754)
⢠Rousseau, AuszĂźge aus: âDer Gesellschaftsvertragâ (1762)
11. Woche | II. BĂźrgerlich-Radikale Philosophie: Adam Smith (Teil 1) | 22.01.2020
Adam Smith, AuszĂźge aus: Der Wohlstand der Nationen (1776)
⢠Einleitung und Plan des Werkes
Buch I: Die Ursachen der Produktivitätssteigerung der Arbeit und die Ordnung der natßrlichen Verteilung des Arbeitsertrages auf die einzelnen BevÜlkerungsschichten
⢠1. Die Arbeitsteilung
⢠2. Das Prinzip, welches zur Arbeitsteilung fßhrt
⢠3. Die Arbeitsteilung hängt von der Ausdehnung des Marktes ab
⢠4. Ursprung und Gebrauch des Geldes
⢠5. Das Prinzip, welches zur Arbeitsteilung fßhrt.
⢠6. Die Bestandteile des Warenpreises
⢠7. Der natßrliche und der Marktpreis der Waren
⢠8. Der Arbeitslohn
⢠9. Die Kapitalprofite
Buch III: Die unterschiedliche Entwicklung verschiedener VĂślker zum Wohlstand
⢠1. Das natßrliche Fortschreiten zum Reichtum
⢠2. Entmutigung des Ackerbaues in dem frßheren Zustande Europas nach dem Falle des rÜmischen Reiches
⢠3. Ursprung und Wachstum der groĂen und kleinen Städte nach dem Falle des rĂśmischen Reiches
⢠4. Wie der Handel der Städte zur Hebung des flachen Landes beitrug
12. Woche | III. BĂźrgerlich-Radikale Philosophie: Adam Smith (Teil 2) | 29.01.2020
Adam Smith, AuszĂźge aus: Der Wohlstand der Nationen (1776)
Buch IV: Systeme der politischen Ăkonomie
⢠7. Kolonien
Buch V: Die Finanzen des Herrschers oder des Gemeinwesens
⢠1. Die Ausgaben des Herrschers oder des Gemeinwesens
13. Woche | IV. BĂźrgerlich-Radikale Philosophie: Was ist der dritte Stand? | 05.02.2020
⢠AbbĂŠ Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: âWas ist der dritte Stand?â (1789)
+ Bernard Mandeville: "Die Bienenfabel" (1732) [engl.]
14. Woche | V. BĂźrgerlich-Radikale Philosophie: Kant und Constant â BĂźrgerliche Gesellschaft | 12.02.2020
⢠Immanuel Kant: âIdee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbĂźrgerlicher Absichtâ und âWas ist Aufklärung?â (1784)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
⢠Benjamin Constant: âVon der Freiheit des Altertums, verglichen mit der Freiheit der Gegenwartâ (1819)
+ Jean-Jacques Rousseau: âAbhandlung Ăźber den Ursprung und die Grundlagen der Ungleichheit unter den Menschenâ (1754)
+ Rousseau, AuszĂźge aus: âDer Gesellschaftsvertragâ (1762)
15. Woche | VI. BĂźrgerlich-Radikale Philosophie: Hegel â Freiheit in der Geschichte | 19.02.2020
- W.F. Hegel, Einleitung aus: Vorlesungen Ăźber die Philosophie der Geschichte (1831)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
Empfohlene HintergrundlektĂźre fĂźr die zweite Hälfte (SoSe â20) des Lesekreisâ âWas ist revolutionärer Marxismus?â
+ Leszek Kolakowski: âDer Sinn des Begriffes âLinkeââ (1968)
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z: âLenin fĂźr Anfängerâ (1977)
+ Sebastian Haffner: âDie deutsche Revolution 1918/19â (1968) [engl. PDF]
+ Edmund Wilson: âTo the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of Historyâ (1940), Part II. Ch. (1â4,) 5â10, 12â16; Part III. Ch. 1â6
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans: âTrotzki fĂźr Anfängerâ (1980)
+ James Joll: âThe Second International 1889â1914â (1966)
On 2 September 2019, Stanley Sharpey and Efraim Carlebach interviewed David McLellan in Canterbury for The Platypus Review. David McLellan (born 1940) is an English scholar of Karl Marx and Marxism. McLellan is currently visiting Professor of Political Theory at Goldsmiths' College, University of London.