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Suggested for Student Purchase (2 items)

Capital: a critique of political economy Volume I - Marx, Karl, Mandel, Ernest, 1976-81Book | Suggested for student purchase

Selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000Book | Suggested for student purchase

Readings (13 items)

The opium of the intellectuals - Aron, R., 1957Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Karl Marx and the close of his system -Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen von, Hilferding, Rudolf, Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus von, Sweezy, Paul M.,1949

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Listen, Marxist!Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

The Fate of MarxismWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

A farewell to Marx: an outline and appraisal of his theories - Conway, D., 1987Book | Recommended (Should Read)

A contemporary critique of historical materialism: Vol. 1: Power, property and the state -Giddens, Anthony, 1981-

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The God that failed: six studies in communism; by A Koestler, I Silone, A Gide [et al] -Koestler, Arthur, [1950]

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Masaryk on Marx; edited by E V Kohak - Masaryk, T G., 1972Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and class theory: a bourgeois critique - Parkin, Frank, 1979

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Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The poverty of historicism - Karl R. Popper, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The open society and its enemies - Popper, K.R., 1962Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The stages of economic growth: a non-communist manifesto - Rostow, W. W., 1971Book | Recommended (Should Read)

White mythologies: writing history and the West - Young, Robert J. C., 1990Book | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK 13: INTRODUCTION: MARX & MARXISM AT THE END OF HISTORY(15 items)

Core Reading (4 items)

Financial Times HomeArticle | Core (Must Read) | Mazower, Mark. ‘The value of Karl Marx’s 19th century

thinking in today’s world’ Financial Times 5 Aug 2016.

On The History of the Communist League by Frederick Engels - Engels, 1970Webpage | Core (Must Read)

Sandblasting Marx - Fredric Jameson, January–February 2009Article | Core (Must Read)

Letters: Letters from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher by Karl MarxWebpage | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Reading (11 items)

SPIEGEL Interview with Francis Fukuyama: 'Where Is the Uprising from theLeft?' - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Why Marxism is on the rise again | World news | The GuardianWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

The End of History? - Francis FukuyamaWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Kolakowski, Leszek, ‘The concept of the Left’Document | Recommended (Should Read)

Lenin, Vladimir I., ‘Karl Marx: A brief biographical sketch with an exposition of Marxism’(1915)

Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

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Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of MarxismWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Reason and revolution: Hegel and the rise of social theory - Herbert Marcuse, 1955Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Introduction

Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today - The New YorkerArticle | Recommended (Should Read)

To Make the World Philosophical - Karl MarxDocument | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and human nature - Sean Sayers, 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. pp.95-110

Tronti, Mario. ‘I am defeated’, hshldsvt. (2014). Online.Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK FOURTEEN: 'STRANGE DEFEAT? THE DEATH AND DEFEAT OF THELEFT' (27 items)

Core Reading (4 items)

Gilbert Achcar: The 'historical pessimism' of Perry Anderson (Autumn 2000)Webpage | Core (Must Read)

Renewals - Perry Anderson, 2000Article | Core (Must Read)

Kolakowski, Leszek, ‘The Concept of the Left’Document | Core (Must Read)

The Fate of MarxismWebpage | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Reading (23 items)

Dialectic of enlightenment - Adorno, Theodor W, Horkheimer, Max, 1986Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Frankfurt School: Late Capitalism or Industrial Society? by Theodor Adorno 1968Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Towards a New Manifesto? - Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, September–October 2010Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Adorno ResignationDocument | Recommended (Should Read)

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New Left Review - Perry Anderson: A Sense of the LeftWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

New Left Review - Norberto Bobbio: At the Beginning of HistoryWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

New Left Review - Perry Anderson: A Reply to Norberto BobbioWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Badiou Of an Obscure DisasterDocument | Recommended (Should Read)

The Frankfurt School and its critics - Bottomore, Tom, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Theory and politics: studies in the development of critical theory - Dubiel, Helmut, 1985Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Failure of a revolution: Germany 1918-19 - S. Haffner, 1973Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas - Held, David, 1980Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The dialectical imagination: a history of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of SocialResearch, 1923-1950 - Jay, Martin, 1973

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The suicide of New Left ReviewWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and philosophy - Karl Korsch, 1970Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Rosa Luxemburg: Order Prevails in Berlin (January 1919)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Negations: essays in critical theory - Marcuse, Herbert, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. ‘Philosophy And Critical Theory’

Hegel's dialectic and its criticism - Rosen, Michael, 1982Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Origin and significance of the Frankfurt School: a Marxist perspective - Slater, Phil, 1977Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Frankfurt school: the critical theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno - Tar,Zoltan, c2011

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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Leon Trotsky: In Defense of Marxism (1939/1940)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

To the Finland station: a study in the writing and acting of history - Edmund Wilson, c1940Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. Part II. chs (1–4,) 5–10, 12–16; Part III.;hs.

1–6.

The Frankfurt School: its history, theories, and political significance - Wiggershaus, Rolf,1994

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK FIFTEEN: SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY (36 items)

Core Reading (3 items)

Socialism : utopian or scientific - Engels, Friedrich, 1892Book | Core (Must Read)

Marx, ‘The Fetishism of Commodities’ in MCCLELLAN 32: pp.472-481Chapter | Core (Must Read)

One of the Popper readings below in Recommended Readings....

Recommended Reading (30 items)

The dominant ideology thesis - Abercrombie, Nicholas, Hill, Stephen, Turner, Bryan S.,1980

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

For Marx - Louis Althusser, 2005Book | Recommended (Should Read) | ch. 7: ‘Marxism And Humanism’

Lenin and philosophy, and other essays - Althusser, Louis, [1971Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. ‘Ideology And The Ideological State

Apparatuses’.

The possibility of naturalism: a philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences- Roy Bhaskar, 2015

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

A realist theory of science - Roy Bhaskar, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Gramsci's political thought: hegemony, consciousness, and the revolutionary process -Femia, J V., 1981

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. chs. 1, 3, 6 & 7

Geras, Norman, ‘Marx And The Critique Of Political Economy’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

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Literature of revolution: essays on Marxism - Geras, Norman, 1986Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Section on 'Essence and Appearance:

Aspects of Fetishism in Marx's Capital'

The Counter-Revolution of Science - F. A. v. Hayek, 1941Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Scientism and the Study of Society. Part II - F. A. v. Hayek, 1943Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Ideology and superstructure in historical materialism - Jakubowski, Franz, 1976Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Main currents of Marxism: its rise, growth, and dissolution - Kolakowski, Leszek, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol III, Chap. 6

The structure of scientific revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn, 2012Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The concept of ideology - Larrain, Jorge, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read)

History and class consciousness: studies in Marxist dialectics -Lukacs,Gyorgy, [1971]

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | See ‘Reification And The Consciousness Of TheProletariat’.

Tactics and ethics, 1919-1929: the questions of Parliamentarianism and other essays -GyorgyLukacs, Michael McColgan, 2014

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | “Intellectual Workers” and the Problem ofIntellectual Leadership’

Saint-Simon and the Origins of Scientism and Historicism - Peyton V. Lyon, 1961Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx, ‘On Idealist Philosophy’ and ‘The Idealist View of History’, The Holy Family inMCCLELLAN: 148-152

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

The real world of ideology - McCarney, J., 1980Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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The difficult dialogue: Marxism and nationalism - Munck, Ronaldo, 1986Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The open society and its enemies: Vol.2: The high tide of prophecy : Hegel, Marx, and theaftermath - Karl R. Popper, date of publication not identified

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Chaps. 13-25

The poverty of historicism - Karl R. Popper, 1960Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge - Karl R. Popper, 2002Book | Recommended (Should Read)

On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and The Theory of Ideology - Oxford) Rosen,Michael (Lincoln College, 2013

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The philosophy of the social sciences - Alan Ryan, 1970Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx's method: ideology, science, and critique in Capital - Sayer, Derek, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Reality and reason: dialectic and the theory of knowledge - Sayers, Sean, 1985Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Royal Road: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science - Michael Sprinker, 1992Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The ideology of power and the power of ideology - Therborn,Goran, 1980

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Karl Marx's theory of ideas - John Torrance, 2008Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Further Reading (3 items)

Colletti, Lucio, ‘A Political and Philosophical Interview’, (1974) New Left Review.Document | Background (Could Read)

History, labour, and freedom: themes from Marx - Cohen, G. A., 1988Book | Background (Could Read) | especially chap. 8

Karl Marx's theory of history: a defence - Cohen, G. A., 1978Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. sections 5 and 8.

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WEEK SIXTEEN: ALIENATION (24 items)

Core Reading (3 items)

Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in MCCLELLAN 8: pp.83-95; pp.118-121Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Marx, ‘Law on Thefts of Wood’, Rheinische Zeitung in MCCLELLAN 3: p.26Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Marx, ‘Alienated Labour in the Productive Process’ and ‘Alienated Labour’ in MCCLELLAN33: pp.547; 554

Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Reading (18 items)

The social and political thought of Karl Marx - Avineri, Shlomo, 1968Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. pp.105-123.

All that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity - Berman, Marshall, 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)

History, labour, and freedom: themes from Marx - Cohen, G. A., 1988Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx's Dialectic of Labor - G. A. Cohen, 1974Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx and human nature: refutation of a legend - Geras, N., 1983Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Alienation; from Marx to modern sociology: a macrosociological analysis - Israel, Joachim,[1971]

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Main currents of Marxism: its rise, growth, and dissolution - Kolakowski, Leszek, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | vol.i: esp. chs. 4 & 5-7.

Reason and revolution: Hegel and the rise of social theory - Marcuse, Herbert, 1955Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Part II, ch. 1

Grundrisse: foundations of the critique of political economy (rough draft) - Karl Marx,Martin Nicolaus, 1973

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Fragment on Adam Smith & Labourpp.7.611-614

Marx's theory of alienation -Mesza

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ros,Istvan, 1975

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. chs. 4-6

Alienation: Marx's conception of man in capitalist society - Ollman, Bertell, 1971Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and human nature - Sayers, Sean, 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx and alienation: essays on Hegelian themes - Sean Sayers, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Chaps. 3-6, 8

WHY WORK? MARX AND HUMAN NATURE.: EBSCOhostArticle | Recommended (Should Read)

Karl Marx's philosophy of man - Plamenatz, John Petrov, 1975Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Parts I & II.

Estrangement: Marx's conception of human nature and the division of labor - Wallimann,Isidor, 1981

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology; ed G Roth and C Wittich -Weber, M., 1978

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Weber, Max, Economy and Society, 1920, (1968)vol.1: ch. 2, esp. ‘Formal and Substantive Rationality’.

Karl Marx - Wood, Allen W., 2004Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Further Reading (3 items)

Suicide: a study in sociology - Durkheim, E., Simpson, George, 1952Book | Background (Could Read)

Marx's Concept of Man - Fromm, Erich, Bottomore, T., 2011Book | Background (Could Read)

From alienation to surplus value - Walton, Paul, Gamble, Andrew, 1972Book | Background (Could Read)

WEEK 17: READING WEEKNo lectures / seminars

WEEK 18: HISTORICAL MATERIALISM (30 items)

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Core Readings (5 items)

Selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000Book | Core (Must Read) | Marx 'Preface - A Critique of Political Economy' pp.424-428

Marx, ‘Letter to Annenkov’ in MCCLELLAN 15: p.209Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Meaning in history: Marx and Engels as philosophes of a second EnlightenmentDocument | Core (Must Read)

The Class Struggles in France - Engels 1895 IntroductionWebpage | Core (Must Read)

The Chief Task of Our DayWebpage | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Readings (19 items)

THE ABOLITIONIST—II - Gopal Balakrishnan, 2015Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Social division - Carling, Alan H., 1991Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Part I.

Passage to Socialism: The Dialectic of Progress in Marx - Paresh Chattopadhyay,2006-08-01

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Karl Marx's theory of history: a defence - Cohen, G. A., 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read)

History, labour, and freedom: themes from Marx - G. A. Cohen, 1988Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Chaps. 1-2, 5-6, 9

A contemporary critique of historical materialism: Vol. 1: Power, property and the state -Giddens, Anthony, 1981-

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Godelier, M. ‘Structure And Contradiction In Capital’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Ideology and superstructure in historical materialism - Jakubowski, Franz, 1976Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Main currents of Marxism: its rise, growth, and dissolution - Kolakowski, Leszek, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | vol. i: chs. 7, 8, 14.

Index to Lenin's 'Karl Marx'Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

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Marx’s Eurocentrism: Postcolonial studies and Marx scholarship | Radical PhilosophyWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Lukes, S. ‘Can the Base be Distinguished from the Superstructure?’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx, ‘On Darwin’, in MCCLELLAN 34: p.565Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx and the Machine - Donald MacKenzie, 1984Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Analyzing Marx: morality, power and history - Miller, R W., 1984Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Ch. 5 And 6

Anti-reductionism and Reconstructing Marxism by Bruce Philp (Manchester MetropolitanUniversity, Department of Economics and Economic History) - Philp, Bruce, 1993

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Method and dogma in historical materialism - Sayer, Derek, [1975]Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The methodology of the social sciences - Weber, Max, Shils, Edward Albert, [c1949]Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Weber, Max ‘Objectivity In Social Science And

Social Policy’ 1905

To the Finland station: a study in the writing and acting of history - Wilson, Edmund, c1940Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Further Reading (6 items)

The communist hypothesis - Alain Badiou, 2010Book | Background (Could Read)

Platypus The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou's "communist hypothesis" -Platypus

Webpage | Background (Could Read)

Marxist theory - Callinicos, Alex, 1989 [reprinted 1990]Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. contributions by Elster and Cohen

Marxism and Hegel - Colletti, Lucio, [1973Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. ch. 9.

The poverty of theory & other essays - Thompson, E. P, 1978Book | Background (Could Read)

Man and society: a critical examination of some important social and political theoriesfrom Machiavelli to Marx - Plamenatz, John Petrov, [1963

Book | Background (Could Read) | vol. ii

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WEEK 19: CLASSES UNDER CAPITALISM (28 items)

Core Reading (3 items)

The Class Struggles in France in MCCLELLAN 23: pp. 313-325Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Marx, ‘Bourgeois and Proletarians’, ‘Proletarians and Communists’, The CommunistManifesto in MCCLELLAN 18: 245-254

Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Marx, ‘Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League’ in MCCLELLAN 22:p.303

Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Readings (16 items)

Marx and justice: the radical critique of liberalism - Buchanan, A E., 1982Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Chap. 5

Corrigan, Philip 'Feudal Relics or Capitalist Monuments: Some Notes on the Sociology ofUnfree Labour'in Sociology 11, no. 3 (1977): 435-463 (Kent print journals)

 

Karl Marx's theory of revolution - Draper, H., 1977-8Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. chs. 1-4, 7, 10 & 18.

Duggett, Michael. 'Marx on peasants' Journal of Peasant Studies 2, no. 2 (1975) : 159-182(Kent print journals)

The condition of the working class in England - Engels, Friedrich, McLellan, David, 1993Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Revolution and counter-revolution, or, Germany in 1848 - Engels, Friedrich, Marx, Karl,Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1891

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The class structure of the advanced societies - Giddens, Anthony, Tonbridge, 1981Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chs 4-5

Main currents of Marxism: its rise, growth, and dissolution - Kolakowski, Leszek, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol.I, pp. 352-358

From post-industrial to post-modern society: new theories of the contemporary world -Kumar, Krishan, 1995

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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Lockwood, D. ‘The Marxist Theory Of Action: The Weakest Link In The Chain’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

History and class consciousness: studies in Marxist dialectics -Lukacs,Gyorgy, [1971]

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. ‘The Consciousness of the Proletariant’

Marx, The Communist Manifesto in MCCLELLAN 18: pp.245-262Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Class structure in the social consciousness - Ossowski, Stanislaw, c1963Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and class theory: a bourgeois critique - Parkin, Frank, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. pp.1-29

Weber, Max, ‘Class, Status, Party’ (1921)Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Power, politics, and people - Mills, Charles Wright, Horowitz, I.L., [1963]Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Further Readings (9 items)

History, labour, and freedom: themes from Marx - Cohen, G. A., 1988Book | Background (Could Read) | chs. 12-13

Karl Marx's theory of history: a defence - Cohen, G. A., 1978Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. pp.70-7 & 207-16.

Class and class conflict in industrial society - Dahrendorf, Ralf, 1959Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. part I.

Making sense of Marx - Elster, Jon, 1985Book | Background (Could Read) | ch 6

Farewell to the working class: an essay on post-industrial socialism - Gorz,Andre, c1982

Book | Background (Could Read)

Analytical Marxism - Roemer, John E., 1986Book | Background (Could Read) | ch 5

Free to lose: an introduction to Marxist economic philosophy - Roemer, John E., c1988

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Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. chs. 2, 6, 9

The debate on Classes - Wright, Erik Olin, Becker, Uwe, 1989Book | Background (Could Read)

Classes - Wright, Erik Olin, 1985Book | Background (Could Read)

WEEK 20: MARX'S THEORY OF THE STATE (34 items)

Core Readings (3 items)

Marx, ‘On the Jewish Question’, in MCCLELLAN 6: PP.46-64Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Marx, The Civil War in France, in MCCLELLAN 37: pp.584-Chapter | Core (Must Read) | pp.584-603.

Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in MCCLELLAN 25: pp.329-356Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Readings (28 items)

Abrams, P. 'Some Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State', Journal Of HistoricalSociology 1, no. 2 (1977): 58-89 (kent print journals)

-Recommended

Hegel's theory of the modern state - Avineri, Shlomo, 1972Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The social and political thought of Karl Marx - Avineri, Shlomo, 1968Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. chs. 1-2, 8

Karl Marx's theory of revolution - Draper, H., 1977-8Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol.1: ‘State And Bureaucracy’ – esp. chs. 1, 3, 5,

8, 11-13.

Making sense of Marx - Elster, Jon, 1985Book | Recommended (Should Read) | ch 7

The First International and After: Political Writings, Vol. 3 - Karl MarxBook | Recommended (Should Read)

The Controversy About Marx and Justice - Norman Geras, 1985Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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Governing the economy: the politics of state intervention in Britain and France - Hall, PeterA., 1986

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | ch. 1, 9, 10

The capitalist state: Marxist theories and methods - Jessop, Robert Douglas, 1982Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Strategic-Relational Approach: An Interview with Bob Jessop | Bob JessopWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

The Oxford handbook of political institutions - R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, Bert A.Rockman, 2008

Chapter | Recommended (Should Read) | Bob Jessop 'The State and State-Building'

The state and revolution: the Marxist theory of the state and the tasks of the proletariatinthe Revolution - Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1965

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. chs. 1-3, 5

Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right 1844Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx And The State | Miliband | Socialist RegisterWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and politics - Miliband, Ralph, Tonbridge, 1977Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The state in capitalist society - Miliband, Ralph, 1973Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Analyzing Marx: morality, power and history - Miller, R W., 1984Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chs 3-4

Contradictions of the welfare state - Offe, Claus, Keane, John, 1984Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. ‘Theses On The Theory Of The State’ and

‘Social Policy and the Theory of the State’

Marxism and class theory: a bourgeois critique - Parkin, Frank, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Part II

Man and society: a critical examination of some important social and political theoriesfrom Machiavelli to Marx - Plamenatz, John Petrov, [1963

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol. II: pp.274-293

New Left Review - Nicos Poulantzas: The Problem of the Capitalist StateWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

New Left Review - Ralph Miliband: The Capitalist State--Reply to N. PoulantzasWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

New Left Review - Ralph Miliband: Poulantzas and the Capitalist StateWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

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New Left Review - Nicos Poulantzas: The Capitalist State: A Reply to Miliband and LaclauWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Sayer, Derek, 'The Critique Of Politics And Political Economy', Sociological Review 33, no. 2(1985): 221-253 (kent print journals) 

Socialism and democracy - McLellan, David, Sayers, Sean, 1991Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Alien politics: Marxist state theory retrieved - Thomas, Paul, 1994Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The pristine culture of capitalism: a historical essay on old regimes and modern states -Wood, Ellen Meiksins, 1991

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Further Reading (3 items)

Ilting, K., Hegel’s Concept of the State and Marx’s Early Critique’Chapter | Background (Could Read)

Marx, Critique of Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’ in MCCLELLAN 4: pp.32-42Chapter | Background (Could Read)

Hegel's political philosophy--problems and perspectives: a collection of newessays -Pelczynski, Z. A., 1971

Book | Background (Could Read) | esp. ‘The Hegelian Conception Of The State’

WEEK WEEK TWENTY-ONE: LENIN AND LENINISM (39 items)

Core Readings (6 items)

The state and revolution - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Robert Service, 1992Book | Core (Must Read) | Esp. Chaps. 1-3, 5

Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism: a popular outline - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, 2010Book | Core (Must Read) | Esp. Chaps. 7-10

"Left-wing" communism: an infantile disorder; an attempt at a popular discussion onMarxian strategy and tactics - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, 1934

Book | Core (Must Read) | esp. chs. 1-3, 7-8, 10.

Notes On The Tasks Of Our Delegation At The HagueWebpage | Core (Must Read)

Notes of a PublicistWebpage | Core (Must Read)

Lenin: 1915/s w: The Principles of Socialism and the War of 1914–1915

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Webpage | Core (Must Read) | especially chapter 1.

Recommended Readings (33 items)

For Marx - L. Althusser, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Chap 2

What does it mean to be a Leninist? | Socialist ReviewWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Revolution and class struggle: a reader in Marxist politics - Robin Blackburn, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Mandel 'The Leninist Theory of Organisation'

and Colletti 'Lenin's State and Revolution'

Bukharin, Lenin and the Theoretical Foundations of Bolshevism - Stephen F. Cohen, 1970Article | Recommended (Should Read)

From Rousseau to Lenin: studies in ideology and society - Lucio Colletti, 1972Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Socialist construction and Marxist theory: Bolshevism and its critique - Philip Richard D.Corrigan, Harvie Ramsay, Derek Sayer, 1978

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Cutrone 'Lenin’s liberalism'Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Cutrone_What is political party for Marxism? - PlatypusWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Hal Draper: The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of The Party" (1990)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Selected correspondence; [of] K Marx and F Engels - K. Marx, 1975Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Engels 'Letter to Danielson' 17 Oct 1893

Lenin's political thought - N. Harding, 1977-81Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vols. I & II.

Leninism - Neil Harding, 1996Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The dictatorship of the proletariat - K. Kautsky, 1964Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Main currents of Marxism: its rise, growth, and dissolution - Leszek Kołakowski, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | vol.II esp. chs. 16-18.

What is to be done? - Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Robert Service, 1989Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (Classic Reprint) - VladimirIlich Lenin, 2016

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Proletarian Revolution and Kautsky the Renegade - N Lenin, 2015Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Chief Task of Our DayWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism: an historical and critical study - George Lichtheim, 1964Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Part V, Chap. 8

Lenin: a study on the unity of his thought -GyorgyLukacs, 1970

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

History and class consciousness: studies in Marxist dialectics -GyorgyLukacs, 1971

Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. 'Towards a Methodology of the Problem ofOrganisation'

The Russian Revolution, and Leninism or Marxism? - Rosa Luxemburg, 1961Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Rosa Luxemburg: Blanquism and Social Democracy (June 1906)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Leninism or Marxism - Rosa LuxemburgWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Soviet Marxism: a critical analysis - Herbert Marcuse, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Part I

Selected correspondence; [of] K Marx and F Engels - K. Marx, 1975Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Marx, Karl, Letters To Sorge. 27 Sept 1877, 5 Nov

1880, To V.I. Zasulich (8 March 1881 (and Shanin, Late Road), To The Editorial Board Of‘Otechestvenniye Zapiski’ (Nov 1877, as ‘Letter to Mikhailovskii), Selected Correspondence(1975) .

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Cliff Slaughter. What is Revolutionary Leadership? (1960)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Late Marx and the Russian road: Marx and "the peripheries of capitalism" : a case - TeodorShanin, c1983

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Foundations of Leninism - Joseph Stalin, 1939Book | Recommended (Should Read)

1905 - L. Trotsky, 1973Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Third International after Lenin; edited by M Shachtman - L. Trotsky, 1936Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The history of the Russian Revolution - Leon Trotsky, 1967Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Esp. Vol.1, Chap.1, App. 1

WEEK WEEK TWENTY-TWO: THE MARXIST CRITIQUE OF THE USSR (17items)

Core Readings (2 items)

The revolution betrayed: what is the Soviet Union and where is it going? - Leon Trotsky,1972

Book | Core (Must Read) | Esp. Intro, Chaps. 1, 3, 8-9

Hillel Ticktin 'Towards a Political Economy of the USSR' (in 'Critique: Journal of SocialistTheory')

Article | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Readings (15 items)

The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the BureaucracyWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

State capitalism in Russia - Tony Cliff, 1974Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Stalin: a political biography - Isaac Deutscher, 1967Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Capitalism and class struggle in the USSR - Neil C. FernandezWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

The Soviet Union demystified: a materialist analysis - Frank Furedi, 1986Book | Recommended (Should Read)

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Horkheimer 'The Authoritarian State' (p.95)Document | Recommended (Should Read)

Rosa Luxemburg: The Russian Tragedy (September 1918)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 - Richard Sakwa, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Soviet politics in perspective - Richard Sakwa, Richard Sakwa, 1998Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Postcommunism - Richard Sakwa, 1999Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Origins of the crisis in the USSR: essays on the political economy of a disintegratingsystem - Hillel Ticktin, 1992

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Stalinism and Bolshevism - Leon Trotsky, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Trotsky: IDOM - Letter to James P. Cannon (September 12, 1939)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Pollock_State CapitalismDocument | Recommended (Should Read)

Resnick & Wolff 'State Capitalism in the USSR? A High-Stakes Debate' (in RethinkingMarxism) - Association for Economic and Social Analysis

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

WEEK TWENTY-THREE: THE THREE R'S: REFORM, REVOLUTION &RESISTANCE (26 items)

Core Readings (4 items)

Selected writings - Marx, Karl, McLellan, David, 2000Book | Core (Must Read) | •Marx, ‘Address to the Communist Leage’, MCCLELLAN 22

•Marx, ‘Speech on the Anniversary of the People’s Paper’ MCCLELLAN 27

Selected writings - Karl Marx, David McLellan, 2000Book | Core (Must Read) | Marx, ‘Speech on the Anniversary of the People’s Paper’

Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme in MCCLELLAN 40: pp.610-616Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Marx, ‘Class Struggle and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ in MCCLELLAN 28: 371Chapter | Core (Must Read)

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Recommended Readings (22 items)

The social and political thought of Karl Marx - Avineri, Shlomo, 1968Book | Recommended (Should Read) | chs. 5-8.

From Rousseau to Lenin: studies in ideology and society - Colletti, Lucio, 1972Book | Recommended (Should Read)

MARX’S LOST THEORY - Mike Davis, 2015Article | Recommended (Should Read)

The dilemma of democratic socialism: Eduard Bernstein's challenge to Marx - Gay, Peter,[1962]

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Capitalism and modern social theory: an analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim andMax Weber - Giddens, Anthony, 1971

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Lenin's political thought - Harding, N., 1977-81Book | Recommended (Should Read) | Vol.ii: chs. 1-2

Every Cook Can Govern by C L R JamesWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Main currents of Marxism: its rise, growth, and dissolution - Kolakowski, Leszek, 1978Book | Recommended (Should Read) | vol.i: ch. 13; vol. ii: chs. 1-4

Marxism: an historical and critical study - Lichtheim, George, 1964Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. pp.259-355

Lockwood, D. ‘The Marxist Theory Of Action: The Weakest Link In The Chain’Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

The proletarian revolution and Kautsky the renegade - Vladimir Ilsich Lenin, 2011Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Rosa Luxemburg: The Socialisation of Society (December 1918)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution (1900)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Rosa Luxemburg: Blanquism and Social Democracy (June 1906)Webpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx, ‘On Violent Revolution’ in MCCLELLAN 46: pp.642-643Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx, ‘Letter to Vera Sassoulitch’ in MCCLELLAN 43: P.623-628Chapter | Recommended (Should Read)

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Marxism after Marx: an introduction - McLellan, David, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The German Social Democratic Party 1890-1914 as a Political Model - Peter Nettl, 1965Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Marxism and class theory: a bourgeois critique - Parkin, Frank, 1979Book | Recommended (Should Read) | esp. pp.145-176

Marxism and social democracy: the revisionist debate 1896-1898 - Tudor, Henry, Tudor, JM., 1988

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Late Marx and the Russian road: Marx and "the peripheries of capitalism" : a case - Shanin,Teodor, c1983

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The permanent revolution: and Results and prospects - Trotsky, Lev, Camejo, Peter,Trotsky, Lev, 1969

Book | Recommended (Should Read)

Week TWENTY-FOUR: Communism (13 items)

Core Readings (3 items)

•Marx, ‘Private Property and Communism’; ‘Communist Revolution’; ‘Egoism and Communism’; ‘Artistic Talent under Communism’; ‘The Free Development of Individuals inCommunist Society’ The German Ideology; MCCLELLAN 14

Chapter | Core (Must Read)

Karl Marx: selected writings - Karl Marx, David McLellan, 2000Book | Core (Must Read) | 'Critique of the Gotha Programme' pp.610-616

The Politics of Utopia - Fredric Jameson, January–February 2004Article | Core (Must Read)

Recommended Readings (10 items)

The Red and the Black | JacobinWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Why not socialism? - G. A. Cohen, 2009Book | Recommended (Should Read)

The Saint-Simonians in Industry and Economic Development - John C. Eckalbar, 1979Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Four Futures | JacobinWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

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The Comforts of Dystopia | JacobinWebpage | Recommended (Should Read)

Freedom and Necessity in Marx's Account of Communism - Jan Kandiyali, 2014-01-02Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Ollman 'Marx's Vision of a Communism: A Reconstruction' (in Critique: journal of socialisttheory)

Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Lovell 'Socialism, Utopianism and the Utopian Socialists' (in History of European ideas)Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Utopia as political theory - Ivor Sarakemsky, 1993-12Article | Recommended (Should Read)

Marx, The Division of Labor, and Human Nature - Ware, Robert, Spring 1982Article | Recommended (Should Read)

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