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DESCRIPTION:Weekly reading group on the history of Marxism and the Left pre
 sented by the Platypus Affiliated Society. New participants always welcome
 \, no prior knowledge necessary\, come into the syllabus at any point at t
 ime. \n\nMeeting weekly Sundays 7-9 pm in SAC 3.116 Balcony Room C\, unles
 s otherwise noted!\n\nFind the full syllabus and all readings at the follo
 wing link: https://platypus1917.org/2018/11/25/platypus-primary-marxist-re
 ading-group-winter-spring-2019/\n\nReading schedule as follows:\n\nRevolut
 ionary leadership | Jan. 27\, 2019\n• Rosa Luxemburg\, “The Crisis of 
 German Social Democracy” Part 1 (1915)\n• J. P. Nettl\, “The German 
 Social Democratic Party 1890–1914 as a Political Model” (1965)\n• Cl
 iff Slaughter\, “What is Revolutionary Leadership?” (1960)\n\n\nReform
  or revolution? | Feb. 3\, 2019\n• Luxemburg\, Reform or Revolution? (19
 00/08)\n+ Eugene Debs\, "Competition versus Cooperation" (1900)\n\n\nMass 
 strike and social democracy | Feb. 24\, 2019\n• Luxemburg\, The Mass Str
 ike\, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906)\n+ Luxemburg\, "Blan
 quism and Social Democracy" (1906)\n\n\nPermanent revolution | Mar. 3\, 20
 19\n• Leon Trotsky\, Results and Prospects (1906)\n+ Tariq Ali and Phil 
 Evans\, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)\n\n
 \nState and revolution | Mar. 10\, 2019\n• Lenin\, The State and Revolut
 ion (1917)\n\n\nImperialism | Mar. 24\, 2019\n• Lenin\, Imperialism\, th
 e Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916)\n+ Lenin\, Socialism and War Ch. 1 Th
 e principles of socialism and the War of 1914–15 (1915)\n\nFailure of th
 e revolution | Mar. 31\, 2019\n• Luxemburg\, “What does the Spartacus 
 League Want?” (1918)\n• Luxemburg\, “On the Spartacus Programme” (
 1918)\n+ Luxemburg\, "German Bolshevism" (AKA "The Socialisation of Societ
 y") (1918)\n+ Luxemburg\, “The Russian Tragedy” (1918)\n+ Luxemburg\, 
 “Order Reigns in Berlin” (1919)\n+ Eugene Debs\, “The Day of the Peo
 ple” (1919)\n+ Sebastian Haffner\, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918
 –19 (1968)\n\n\nRetreat after revolution | Apr. 14\, 2019\n• Lenin\, 
 “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)\n+ Lenin\, "Notes 
 of a Publicist" (1922)\n\n\nDialectic of reification | Apr. 21\, 2019\n•
  Lukács\, “The Standpoint of the Proletariat” (Part III of “Reifica
 tion and the Consciousness of the Proletariat\,” 1923). Available in thr
 ee sections from marxists.org: section 1 section 2 section 3\n+ Being and 
 becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart
  of terms\n+ Commodity form chart of terms\n+ Reification chart of terms\n
 \n\nLessons of October | Apr. 28\, 2019\n• Trotsky\, The Lessons of Octo
 ber (1924) [PDF] • Trotsky\, "Stalinism and Bolshevism" (1937)\n\n\nTrot
 skyism | May 5\, 2019\n+ Trotsky\, "To build communist parties and an inte
 rnational anew" (1933)\n+ Trotsky\, "If America should go communist" (1934
 )\n• Trotsky\, The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth
  International (1938)\n+ Trotsky\, "Trade unions in the epoch of imperiali
 st decay" (1940)\n+ Trotsky\, Letter to James Cannon (September 12\, 1939)
 \n\n\nThe authoritarian state | May 12\, 2019\n• Friedrich Pollock\, "St
 ate Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations" (1941) (note 32 on USSR
 )\n• Max Horkheimer\, "The Authoritarian State" (1942)
LOCATION:SAC Location: 3.116 Balcony Room C
SUMMARY:What is Marxism? Reading Group
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CATEGORIES:Policy & Law
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