Rad Ed 2021 - Fundamentals of Marxism: A Reading Group

Описание: As the glory days of capitalism become ever more simply a memory, Marxism has made a significant re-emergence in the last decade as the predominant ideology that would stand to oppose the decay of late-capitalism. Naturally, this can make it difficult to get to the core of exactly what Marxism is for newcomers, on account of the abundance of differing tendencies that seem to oppose each other. Orthodox Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Humanist Marxism, even Hoxhaism or Maoism; whatever could they mean?

Perhaps so many questions can’t be answered in one session but the texts we’ll be reading will certainly provide a strong introduction to the core concepts of Marxism. One is Huey Newton’s Revolutionary Intercommunalism, a speech given to Boston College that sets out the fundamental belief system of the Black Panther Party and Newton’s conception of Intercommunalism. The other is The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man by Friedrich Engels, a very good outline of Dialectical Materialism and how Marxism draws from the fundamental material experience of man throughout history.

This workshop was intended for people of all levels of familiarity with Marxism. Readings were encouraged but not expected.

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Links to texts:

Revolutionary Intercommunalism: https://libcom.org/library/huey-newto...

The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

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