Reading, Week 21

II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (C) HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) J. V. Stalin. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course. International Publishers, 1939. Chapter 5:  The Bolshevik Party During the New Rise of the Working-Class Movement Before the First Imperialist War (1912-1914), pp.…Read more Reading, Week 21

Reading, Week 18

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (C) HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) J. V. Stalin. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course. International Publishers, 1939. Chapter 4: The Mensheviks and…Read more Reading, Week 18

Reading, Week 16

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (C) HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) J. V. Stalin. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course. International Publishers, 1939. Chapter 3: The Mensheviks and the…Read more Reading, Week 16

Reading, Week 15

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (C) HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) J. V. Stalin. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course. International Publishers, 1939. Chapter 2: Formation of the…Read more Reading, Week 15

Readings, Week 14

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (C) HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) J. V. Stalin. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course. International Publishers, 1939. Introduction, pp. 1-2 Chapter 1:…Read more Readings, Week 14

Reading: Week 12

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (B) MORE ADVANCED READING (2) Frederick Engels. Anti-Dühring. Karl Marx & Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 25, International Publishers, 1989. pp. 1-309. (d) Part 1: Chapters 9-11 (pp. 78-110) [Continuing from Last Week:] Engels…Read more Reading: Week 12

Reading: Week 11

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (B) MORE ADVANCED READING (2) Frederick Engels. Anti-Dühring. Karl Marx & Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 25, International Publishers, 1989. pp. 1-309. (c) Part 1: Chapters 5-8 (pp. 44-78) [Continuing from Last Week:] He…Read more Reading: Week 11

Critique of the Gotha Programme: Critical Response

Karl Marx. “Critique of the Gotha Programme.” Karl Marx & Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 24, International Publishers, 1989, pp. 75-99. The Paris Commune of 1871, which lasted two months, from March 26-May 30, 1871, signified the first successful, though short-lived, workers’ revolution in history. In the aftermath of the Commune’s bloody defeat, revolutionary communists…Read more Critique of the Gotha Programme: Critical Response

Reading: Week 10

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (B) MORE ADVANCED READING (2) Frederick Engels. Anti-Dühring. Karl Marx & Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 25, International Publishers, 1989. pp. 1-309. (a) Introduction: Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 16-32) (b) Part 1: Chapters 3…Read more Reading: Week 10

Reading: Week 9

What follows is an excerpt from Maurice Cornforth’s 1952 Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. II. THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM (B) MORE ADVANCED READING (1) Karl Marx. “Critique of the Gotha Programme.” Karl Marx & Frederick Engels Collected Works, Vol. 24, International Publishers, 1989, pp. 75-99. Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme deals with…Read more Reading: Week 9