Tentative and Evolving Schedule

 

Week One……January 17…….Introductions…….Overview of the development of Marxism……Problems in the study of Marxism
 

Week Two……January 24…….Marx’s Theory of Alienation.....Read "Estranged Labor," "The Meaning of Human Requirements," and "Private Property and Communism" from the 1844 Manuscripts at the minimum
 

Week Three…...January 31…....Marx’s Theory of Ideology......Read Part One of The German Ideology
 

Week Four…….February 7……Marx on Communism…..Review material on communism in the Manuscripts and The German Ideology plus read  The Communist Manifesto which is available online if you don't already have it........Journals collected
 

Week Five…. …February 14…..Marx on ethics, the critique of political economy, and strategy.....Read the selections of Part 2 of The German Ideology, Section 4 of Chapter 1 of Capital, "The Critique of the Gotha Program"........Consider these "Discussion Questions."......You may also want to read the material on Stirner in the editor's introduction to The German Ideology.
 

Week Six….. ….February 21…..Marxism after Marx ….the debate about reform and revolution……. Lenin and Luxemburg…….Read the selections from Karl Korsch, pp. 29-53 in An Anthology of Western Marxism edited by Roger Gottlieb (now in the bookstore)....You may also want to read the introduction to this anthology if you want to learn more about the historical context....Also you can pick up from me or from the Division 3 Office (2430) some writing by me on Marx's critique of ethics.
 

Week Seven……February 28….Western Marxism…Lukacs and Gramsci…..pp. 54-141 in An Anthology of Western Marxism.....Journals collected
 

Week Eight……..March 7……...Western Marxism….Frankfurt School…..pp.171-193 in An Anthology of Western Marxism

Spring Break
 

Week Nine……..March 21…….The New Left and Marxism in the third world….Gorz and Marcuse, pp. 218-247 in An Anthology of Western Marxism and selections from Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (first three readings on this website).  Those who want to do more reading are encouraged to read all of The Wretched of the Earth and to read the fist chapters of Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man.
 

Week Ten………March 28…….Marxist Feminism v. Socialist Feminism……pp. 279-369 in An Anthology of Western Marxism (emphasize Mitchell and Ferguson)......Journals collected
 

Week Eleven……April 4……….Race and Marxism……Mills and West.....Pick up photcopies in the Division 3 Office
 

Week Twelve….. April 11……… David Schweickart’s proposal for democratic socialism......Read all of After Capitalism

Week Thirteen…..April 18………Presentation by David Schweickart in 1610......Discussion with David Schweickart at 3:30 in our usual room
 

Week Fourteen……April 25…….Ecology and Marxism…..From Foster's Marx's Ecology, read pp. 1-20, 163-177, 198-223)........You can pick up this reading in 2430, the Division 3 Office.........Also read a book review by Foster available online.......Journals collected.....Schedule your time to take the oral exam.
 

Week Fifteen……May 2………...Special Event...Street Theater Company from India
 

Week Sixteen……May 9………..Presentation by Daniel Kynaston.....Summing Up

Author: Hollace Graff
Oakton Community College
Last updated: April 12, 2007