Reading & Exam Schedule

 

Readings

Links

Presentation

Evaluative Critiques

Deadlines, etc.

01/16

Introductory Whatnots

 

Novy

 

 

01/21

Einstein: Why Socialism?

Engels: Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx

Wolff 1-12

 

Novy

 

 

01/23

Woods: The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years

Singer: Why we need a new manifesto

 

Novy

 

 

01/26

Introduction Part 1 (SW 5-8)

Marx “Critique of Hegel’s `Philosophy of Right’” (SW 32-45)

 

Novy

1.

2.

 

 

01/28

Lee Preface & Chapter 1

 

Novy

 

 

01/30

Marx On the Jewish Question (SW 46-64)

Novy

1.

2.

 

 

02/2

Marx On the Jewish Question (SW 64-69)

Lenin: Socialism and Religion

 

 

Jones

1. Rehm

2.

 

 

02/4

Marx “Towards a Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Introduction” (SW 71-82)

 

 

Russell

1.

2.

 

 

02/6

Wolff 13-47

 

Novy

 

Choose Paper Topic

02/9

Lee Chapter 2

 

Novy

 

 

02/11

Marx EPMSS  “Preface” (SW 83-85) & “Alienated Labor” (SW 85-95)

 

 

Miles

1. Russell

2.

 

 

02/13

Marx EPMSS “Private Property and Communism” (SW 95-104) & “On Money” (SW 118-120)

 

 

Braswell

1. Wood

2.

 

 

02/16

Wolff 48-66

Marx “Preface to A Critique of Political Economy” (SW 424-427)

 

Novy

 

Bibliography and Abstract Due

02/18

Lee Chapter 3

Introduction Part II (SW 141-143)

 

Novy

 

 

02/20

Marx “Theses on Feuerbach” (SW 171-173)

 

 

McCune

1. Lovett

2. Strigel

 

 

02/23

Marx The German Ideology (SW 175-184)

 

 

Meazle

1. Wood

2.

 

 

02/25

Marx The German Ideology (SW 184-201)

 

Novy

1. Swanson

2. Vela

 

 

02/27

Marx Communist Manifesto (SW 245-271)

 

Phillips

Novy

1. Gowin

2. Miles

 

 

03/2

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

1. Harvey

2. McCune

 

 

03/4

 

 

 

 

 

Exam #1

03/6

Introduction Part III (SW 375-377)

Wolff 66-99

 

Novy

 

Review of Sources Due

03/9

Marx Capital Vol. 1(SW 452-480)

 

 

Stengel

1. Lovett

2. Murphy

 

Review of Sources Due

03/11

Marx Capital Vol. 1 (SW 481-508)

 

 

Harvey

1. Murphy

2.

 

 

03/13

Marx Capital Vol. 1 (SW 508-525)

 

Murphy

1. Phillips

2.

 

 

03/16

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

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

 

Gowin

1. Mann

2. Russell

 

 

03/18

Lee Chapter 4

 

Novy

 

 

03/20

Arneson: Marxism and Secular Faith

Kurrild-Klitgaard: The Paradox of Rebellion

 

Novy

1. Miles

2. Vela

 

Initial Draft Due

03/23 -03/27

 

 

 

 

Spring Holiday

 

03/30

Geras: Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses

 

Novy

1. Phillips

2. Rehm

 

Comments Due

04/1

Capability Approach

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

 

Leong

1. Jones

2. Stengel

 

 

04/3

Lee Chapter 5

 

Novy

 

 

04/6

Nuclear Family

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

 

 

Mann

1. Stengel

2. Harvey

 

 

04/8

Gender & Labor

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

 

 

Strigel

1. Gowin

2. Jones

 

 

04/10

Education

Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Chapter 2)

Gramsci: Men or Machines?

 

 

Jackson

 

Revised Draft Due

04/13

Marx & Darwin

Engels: Letter to Pyotr Lavrov

Marx “Letters on Darwin” (SW 565)

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

 

 

Wood

1. Braswell

2. McCune

 

 

04/15

Ecology

Foster: Marx’s Ecology in Historical Perspective

Lee Chapter 6

 

Novy

1. Jackson

2. Mann

 

 

04/17

Colonialism

Marx The British Rule in India (1853)

Marx The Future Results of the British Rule in India (1853) (SW 362-367)

 

 

Bailey

1. Meazle

2.

 

 

04/20

Internationalism

Foster: Marx and Internationalism

Marx Inaugural Address 1st International (1864) (SW 575-581)

Marx Letter to Lincoln (1865)

 

 

Swanson

1. Braswell

2. Meazle

 

 

04/22

Globalization

Klein: The Shock Doctrine: a discussion

Roy: The New American Century

 

 

Lovett

1. Bailey

2. Jackson

 

 

04/24

Justice

Nell and O’Neill: Justice under Socialism

 

 

Vela

1. Bailey

2. Strigel

 

 

04/27

Mental Illness

Fromm: Character and Social Process

Fromm: Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis

 

 

Rehm

1. Leong

2.

 

 

04/29

Art and Study

Baran: The Commitment of the Intellectual

Breton & Rivera: Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art

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

Novy

1. Leong

2. Swanson

 

Full Portfolio Due

05/6

 

 

 

 

Exam 2:

11:00 – 01:00