Reading list

Saturday

World perspectives: war, crisis and revolution – the new normal

• Inflation, instability and insurrectionary movements: the ‘new normal’ for world capitalism

Sunday

Marxism and art: unshackling culture from capitalism

• Art and the Class Struggle
• Capitalist fetishism and the decay of art
• Marxism and art: introduction to Trotsky's writings on Art and Culture
• Literature and Revolution - Leon Trotsky

The labour theory of value: the origins of Marxist economics

• In Defence of Marx's Labour Theory of Value
• Value, Price, and Profit - Karl Marx

The enlightenment and the struggle for rational thought

• History of Philosophy, “The Renaissance”, “Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz”

How Marx made history: the development of historical materialism

• On the Significance of Militant Materialism - V.I. Lenin
• The Materialist Conception of History - Georgi Plekhanov
• The Development of Monist View of History - Georgi Plekhanov

MONDAY

Blood and gold: the Spanish conquest of the Americas

• The Spanish conquest of Mexico: a Marxist perspective
• Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano

Marxism, money and inflation

• What is Money
• Inflation and instability: contradictions mount for capitalism
• Marxism vs Modern Monetary Theory

The Marxist theory of knowledge: how do we know things?

• Anti-Duhring, Part One.
• Reason In Revolt, The Theory of Knowledge

The Permanent Revolution in Europe: 1848

• The 1848 Revolutions: the hoped-for prelude to the proletarian revolution
• The Class Struggles in France - Karl Marx
• The Revolutions of 1848 - Karl Marx
• Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany - Friedrich Engels

The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

• Reclaiming the revolutionary legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
• Rosa Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks: dispelling the myths
• The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg - Marie Frederiksen

Competition, monopoly and planning: the market vs socialism

• Capitalism is dying – and a new socialist society is trying to be born
• Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism - V.I. Lenin

TUESDAY

Oppression, inheritance and private property: Marxism and the family

• Origin of the family: In Defence of Engels and Morgan
• Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State - Friedrich Engels

The US Civil War: the Second American Revolution

• Marxism and the USA, The Second American Revolution
• Writings on the US Civil War - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Dialectics of nature: Marxism and modern science

• Scientific Revolution and Materialist Philosophy
• Reason in Revolt - Alan Woods
• Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen - Mark Buchanan