Schedule of Topics ●
Readings ● Exams
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Week
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Topic
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Date
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1 |
08/20 |
Introductory Whatnots |
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2 |
Early Marx |
08/23 08/25 08/27 |
Einstein “Why Socialism?” (1949) Wolff 1-12 Engels “Speech
at the Grave of Karl Marx” (1883) Woods
“The Communist Manifesto
After 150 Years” Singer
“Why
we need a new manifesto” Introduction Part 1
(SW 5-8) Marx “Critique of
Hegel’s `Philosophy of Right’” (SW 32-45) |
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3 |
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08/30 09/01 09/03 |
Lee Preface &
Chapter 1 Marx “On the Jewish
Question” (SW 46-64) Marx “On the Jewish
Question” (SW 64-69) Novy “Marx, Racism & the Jewish Question” |
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4 |
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09/06 09/08 09/10 |
Labor Day
Holiday
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5 |
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09/13 09/15 09/17 |
Lee Chapter 2 |
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6 |
Historical Materialism |
09/20 09/22 09/24 |
Wolff 48-66 Marx “Preface to A
Critique of Political Economy” 424-427 |
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7 |
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09/27 09/29 10/01 |
Marx The German
Ideology 175-184 Marx The German
Ideology 184-201 Marx Communist
Manifesto 245-262, 270-271 (I, II & IV only) |
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8 |
Economics |
10/04 10/06 10/08 |
Levine & Sober “What’s
historical about historical materialism?” (1985) (J-Stor) Exam 1 Introduction Part III (SW 375-377) Wolff 66-99 |
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9 |
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10/11 10/13 10/15 |
Marx Capital
Vol. 1(SW 452-480) Marx Capital
Vol. 1 (SW 481-508) Fall Holiday |
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10 |
An Interlude Revolution |
10/18 10/20 10/22 |
Marx Capital
Vol. 1 (SW 508-525) Marable:
“Introduction” from How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1982)
Note: Dr. Marable will be speaking on campus 10/21 DuBois: ”Negroes
and the crisis of Capitalism in the United States – Reprise” (1953) |
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11 |
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10/25 10/27 10/29 |
Arneson “Marxism
and Secular Faith” (1985) (J-Stor) Kurrild-Klitgaard “The paradox of rebellion” Reading Day – No
class! |
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12 |
Women & Men |
11/01 11/03 11/05 |
Lee Chapter 5 Engels “The
Monogamous Family” in Origins of the Family, Private Property and the
State (1884) Davis: “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective” (1981) |
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13 |
Humans & Nature |
11/08 11/10 11/12 |
Russell: “A Value-Theoretic
Approach to Childbirth a Reproductive Engineering (1994) Engels “Letter
to Pyotr Lavrov” (1875) Pannekoek from “Marxism
and Darwinism” (1909) (sections IV-VII, IX, X) Marx “Letters on
Darwin” (SW 565) Lee Chapter 6 Foster “Marx’s
Ecology in Historical Perspective” (2002) |
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14 |
Imperialism &
Globalization |
11/15 11/17 11/19 |
Marx The British
Rule in India (1853) Marx The Future
Results of the British Rule in India (1853) (SW 362-367) Foster “Marx and Internationalism”
(2000) Marx Inaugural
Address 1st International (1864) (SW 575-581) Marx Letter
to Lincoln (1865) Monthly Review Kipling, the White Man’s
Burden, and US Imperialism (2003) Kipling “The
White Man’s Burden” (1899) Twain “Comments on the Moro Massacre” (1906) |
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15 |
Justice |
11/22 11/24 11/26 |
Edward Nell and Onora
O’Neill: “Justice under socialism” (1972) Thanksgiving Holiday Thanksgiving Holiday |
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16 |
Who are we? |
11/29 12/01 12/03 |
Fromm “Character
and Social Process” from Fear of Freedom (1942) Fromm “Individual
and Social Origins of Neurosis” (1944) Mao “Study”
from “Quotations of Mao Tse Tung” aka “The Little Red Book” Breton & Rivera “Manifesto
for an Independent Revolutionary Art” Baran “The Commitment of the
Intellectual” (1961) Reading Day |
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17 |
Final Exam Week
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12/06 |
Exam 2; 11:00-1:00 |