Weekly Marx Reading Group
Schedule and Booking
Please book a Saturday to speak at an upcoming Weekly Marx.
This Weeks' Reading:
3 Sep 2021 - FU Book Union
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: Prof. Adnan Husain
Reading: “A People’s Guide to Capitalism:An Introduction to Marxist Economics” by Hadas Thier
Pages: TBD
Link(s): Haymarket Books
Upcoming Readings:
1 Oct 2021 - FU Book Union
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: Bruce Malm
Reading: “Empire of Cotton: A Global History” by Sven Beckert
Pages: TBD
Link(s): Indiebound
5 Nov 2021 - FU Book Union
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: Falco
Reading: “Worker’s Councils and the Economics of Self-Managed Society” by Cornelius Castoriadis
Pages: TBD
Link(s): Libcom
3 Dec 2021 - FU Book Union
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: Dave in PA
Reading: “Labor and Freedom” by Eugene Debs
Pages: TBD
Link(s): Indiebound
7 Jan 2021 - FU Book Union
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate
Reading: “We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent” by Nesrine Malik
Pages: TBD
Link(s): Goodreads
Previous Weeks' Readings:
Week #18: 2 May 2021
Speaker: Grace
Reading 1: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Section: Antithesis of Capital and Labor
Pages: 16-26
Source: Tucker
Reading 2: Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (First Manuscript)
Section: Landed
Pages: 36-42
Source: Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts
Week #19: 9 May 2021
Speaker: Prof. Ann Li
Reading: The German Ideology: Part I
Pages: 146-202
Source: Tucker
Week #20: 16 May 2021
Speaker: Myla
Reading: The German Ideology: Part I
Pages: 163-175
Source: Tucker
Week #21: 23 May 2021
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: The German Ideology: Part I
Pages: 176-200
Source: Tucker
Week #22: 30 May 2021
Speaker: Prof. Ann Li
Reading: Grundrisse
Pages: 221-245
Source: Tucker
Week #23: 6 June 2021
Speaker: @dhegertz
Reading: Grundrisse
Pages: 245-261
Source: Tucker
Week #24: 13 June 2021
Speaker: Prof. Ann Li
Reading: Grundrisse
Pages: 261-293
Source: Tucker
Week #25: 19 June 2021 NEW TIME: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: TBD, The Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
Reading list suggestion for next three sessions:
I READER pp.29-52 esp. 36-40 “Our Marx” (1918);
II READER pp. 164- 171“Letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party” (1926); pp. 171-89 “Some Aspects of the Southern Question” (1926)
III READER pp. 189-221 Prison Notebooks
Pages: TBD
Teaser: This book fleshes out Gramsci’s battle plan to conquer nations like ours and impose a totalitarian gov’t much like Marx’s. Though he had a different battle plan than Marx, he also understood that winning “the battle for democracy” (quote from the Manifesto) was a critical early step, and that it would take decades to infiltrate and eventually take over our institutions (later dubbed “the long march through the institutions”). This book lays the plan out, and is critical to understanding how to fight our enemies so that we can defeat them. – Stellar Amazon Review
Week #26: 26 June 2021 - Open Discussion
BECAUSE OF NORWAY BURN, WE MEET AT 1 PM ET ON SATURDAY 26 JUNE - WE ANTICIPATE HAVING A DISCUSSION ON WHAT IS TO BE READ NEXT (The Gramsci week 2 discussion will be postponed to the following week)
Sources:
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks (PDF)
- The Gramsci Reader Vol. I (PDF)
- Gramsci Resources (Marxist Internet Archive)
- Selected Political Writings 1921-1929 (PDF)
Week #27: 3 July 2021 - Gramsci Reader
NEW TIME: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: “Letter to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party” (1926); “Some Aspects of the Southern Question” (1926)
Pages: pp. 164- 171, pp. 171-89
Sources:
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks (PDF)
- The Gramsci Reader Vol. I (PDF)
- Gramsci Resources (Marxist Internet Archive)
- Selected Political Writings 1921-1929 (PDF)
Week #28: 10 July 2021 - Gramsci Reader
Reading: The Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
Pages: pp. 189-221
Source: See above
Week #28: 10 July 2021 - Gramsci Reader
Reading: The Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
Pages: pp. 189-221
Source: See above
Week #28: 17 July 2021 - Fanon Wretched of the Earth
NEW TIME: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: Concerning Violence, “Violence in the International context”
Pages: pp. 35-106
Week #29: 24 July 2021 - Fanon Wretched of the Earth
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: Chapter 3, “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness”
Pages: pp. 148-205
Week #30: 31 July 2021 - Fanon Wretched of the Earth
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: Chapter 4, entitled “on National Culture” and the Conclusion
Pages: pp. 206-248, 311-316
Week #?
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: “A People’s Guide to Capitalism:An Introduction to Marxist Economics” by Hadas Thier
Pages: TBD
Week #31: 7 Aug 2021 - John Bellamy Foster:
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: “Marx’s Ecology” (2000) pp.1-27.
Pages: Introduction and part of Chapter 1
Week #32: 14 Aug 2021 - Eco-Socialism
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: “Marx’s Ecology” (2000)
Pages: Finish Foster Chapter 1, pp.28-65.
Week #33: 21 Aug 2021
Time: 02:00 pm Saturdays
Speaker: book a Saturday
Reading: New Foster Chapter?
Pages: TBD