Readings for PHIL3395: Marx SP09

Arneson: Marxism and Secular Faith

Baran: The Commitment of the Intellectual

Breton & Rivera: Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art

Davis: The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective

DuBois: Negroes and the Crisis of Capitalism in the United States – Reprise

Einstein: Why Socialism?

Engels: “The Monogamous Family” (Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State)

Engels: Letter to Pyotr Lavrov

Engels: Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx

Foster: Marx and Internationalism

Foster: Marx’s Ecology in Historical Perspective

Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Chapter 2)

Fromm: Character and Social Process

Fromm: Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis

Geras: Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses

Gramsci: Men or Machines?

Klein: The Shock Doctrine: a discussion

Kurrild-Klitgaard: The Paradox of Rebellion

Lenin: Socialism and Religion

Levine & Sober: What’s historical about historical materialism?

Mao “Study” (Chapter 33 - The Little Red Book)

Marable: “Introduction” (How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America)

Nell and O’Neill: Justice under Socialism

Pannekoek Marxism and Darwinism (sections iv-vii, ix, x)

Roy: The New American Century

Sen: Development Thinking at the Beginning of the 21^st Century

Singer: Why we need a new manifesto

Woods: The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years