Classical Marxism: Course Guide

POLS2061 semester 1 2010
Classical Marxism
M. M. Cheremnykh The menagerie of the future

Kommunar Petrograd 1918 (modified)
Course Guide
Vital first steps

This Course Outline contains vital information about Classical Marxism that
you have to be familiar with, including lecture and tutorial arrangements,
reading guides, assessment items. Read it right through as soon after you
have enrolled as possible. The outline is also on the courses Wattle site
home page as a PDF file, with live web links
Changes in arrangements and other important information will be published
on the courses Wattle site home page. Check twice a week.
Early on, listen to British comedian Mark Steele, who provides an
entertaining introduction to Marxs life on the courses Wattle site.
Overview
Marx developed an understanding of how capitalism works as a guide to
political action. He analysed the relationships between economic and
political power, class and inequality, accumulation and globalisation,
exploitation and oppression, struggle and social changeissues that are still
relevant, despite changes in technologies and the details of capitalist
organisation of production (whose dynamics he considered).
Through the course we develop our understanding of key Marxist concepts
and their application to current problems. In seminars we discuss important
Marxist texts, mainly by Marx and Engels, their historical context and
contemporary relevance. Lectures provide background to these texts and
their relationship to Marxist theory and practice. Issues we cover include: the
Marxist conception of socialism as the self-emancipation of the working
class; Marxs integration of earlier radical democratic and socialist
traditions; the place of revolution in Marxs approach to the supersession of
capitalism.
Classical Marxism
Basic information
Lecturer:
Dr Rick Kuhn, room 2135 Copland Building, 6125-3851
email Rick.Kuhn@anu.edu.au
The best way to arrange a meeting time with Rick is by email. He will be available for
consultation after seminars.
School of Social Sciences Office
Faculty of Arts Office
Room 2147 Copland Building

6125-4420
ground floor Haydon-Allen Building

6125-2898
Lectures
Tuesday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Manning Clark Theatre 4
2-4:00 pm
Hume Centre Copland 1171
Seminars
Tuesday
(below Social Sciences office)
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to
demonstrate knowledge of basic Marxist concepts
describe the contexts within which Marxist concepts emerged and evolved in Marxs
and Engelss time and subsequently
distinguish amongst different approaches which call themselves Marxist and their
relationships with the ideas and practice of Marx and Engels
formulate Marxist approaches to researching historical and contemporary social
issues
analyse historical and contemporary social issues by applying Marxist concepts
assess the usefulness and validity of Marxist approaches
individually and collectively, present written and oral arguments about the above
Generic skills
This course will help develop your skills in
critical thinking
written and oral communication
research
teamwork
challenging authority
2010
Reading and discussion

Seminars
How to read
This course revolves around the seminars.
The points below are questions you should

probably have in mind when you read anything
at all, but certainly anything you read in
association with this course.
Regular
attendance
and
active
participation in seminars (at least seven of
the ten seminars) is a prerequisite for
passing this course.
If you are to get anything out of the seminars it is
also essential to do the reading and to come to
seminars with your assessments and criticisms of
the texts and questions about them. An important
strategy for the course is to try to read all the
required reading early in the semester, even if
only quickly, and then to reread it in preparation
for seminars. The focus on the primary texts and
the sometimes substantial amount of reading they
involve has meant that there are only a few items
under additional reading for each seminar. The
secondary literature on Marx and Engelss work,
not to mention attempts to apply their theories
and methods, is vast. Students who are interested
in pursuing specific questions or who are
introducing a seminar should not hesitate to
explore this literature. Rick will be happy to
suggest further entry points to it.
Almost all the required seminar readings are on
the web.
See the pointers on seminar introductions on
page 14.
Other co-operative activity

More than one student will be involved in
presenting each seminar. People preparing the
same seminar should meet at least twice before
their seminar to discuss the texts, the issues and
their presentations.
Lectures
The lectures will provide background
information on the material discussed in the
seminars. If you read ahead and have factual
questions about the background to them, let Rick
know so he can include a response in the relevant
lecture.
The text itself

What is the author trying to say? That is, what is
the logic of her/his argument? This is crucial to
understanding the text as a whole, rather than
just bits and pieces of it.
What are the main steps or subsidiary arguments
in the overall case, i.e. how is it organised and
structured to generate its conclusions?
How are the arguments supported in terms of
evidence, logic, examples, emotional appeal?
What sort of style is used?
Context
Why is the author making her/his case and why
in this way? What are his/her material interests
and background?
Where was the text originally published?
What is/was the audience(s)?
In what tradition(s) does the author stand i.e.
who are/were her/his sources and authorities in
terms of the kind of arguments, the way they are
made, what supports them? Who are her/his
opponents inside or outside this tradition?
What
knowledge,
politics,
orientation,
experience does the author assume his/her
audience has? And what does the author consider
to be irrelevant that others may consider relevant
to the argument? Why? That is, what can you tell
about the text from what isnt there?
Reliability
Is the information in the text likely to be accurate
and reliable? Are there references to sources?
Are assertions backed up with serious arguments
and information?
Is the source more useful for its account of
particular facts and developments or because it is
evidence of the specific standpoint/position of a
political actor or both?
4
Self-consciousness
What assumptions/theories are you bringing to
the text? How do they influence your answers to
the above questions?
Critical assessment
The questions above may help to provide a basis
for making critical assessments of the texts
originality, strengths, weaknesses, implications,
persuasiveness, applicability, acceptability etc.
Reading
Recommended text
Callinicos, Alex The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl
Marx
Bookmarks,
London
1995,
www.istendency.net/pdf/revideas.pdf. A brief
and clear explanation of Marxs thought. It is
strongly recommended that students read this
before or early in the course.
A key source if you want to obtain your own
copies of material is the Marxists Internet
Archive at www.marxists.org
Note, however, that many of the texts we

read are in the Penguin selections of
Marxs works which have excellent
explanatory annotations. A copy of each is
in short loan Early writings, The
revolutions of 1848, Surveys from exile, The
First International and after. These are
worth checking through for explanations
of obscure events and people.
The following are very useful introductions to
classical Marxist thought:
Harman, Chris How Marxism Works Socialist
Workers
Party,
London
1983,
http://www.comcen.com.au/~marcn/redflag/archi
ve/harman/hmw/hmw.doc, Chifley HX73.H37
1986, a very basic introduction to Marxism.
Draper, Hal Karl Marxs Theory of Revolution
Monthly Review Press New York. A clear and
often humorous exploration of Marx and Engels
political analysis, in four volumes, Chifley
JC233.M299D7
Eagleton, Terry Marx and freedom, Phoenix,
London, 1997 HX39.5.E24 1997
Nimtz, August H. Marx and Engels : their
contribution to the democratic breakthrough
Classical Marxism
State University of New York Press, Albany
2000 Chifley JC423 .N535 2000. Brilliant!
Other useful books are:
Abendroth, Wolfgang A Short History of the
European Working Class Monthly Review Press,
New York 1972
Barbalet, Jack Marxs Construction of Social
Theory Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1983
Bottomore Tom A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Blackwell, Oxford 1988
Draper, Hal The Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Schocken, New York 1986 a reference work,
rather than something to read cover-to-cover.
Geras, Norman Marx and Human Nature:
Refutation of a Legend Verso, London 1983 *
Hobsbawm, Eric The Age of Revolution: Europe
1789-1848 Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London
1962
Hobsbawm, Eric The Age of Capital, 1848-1875
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London 1975
Hobsbawm, Eric The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
Pantheon, New York 1987
Hobsbawm, Eric The Revolutions of 1848 sound
recording, Sussex tapes, Wakefield 1975
Lapides, Kenneth (ed.) Marx and Engels on the
trade unions Praeger, New York 1987
HX544.M373 1987
Lenin, Vladimir The Three Sources and Three
Component
Parts
of
Marxism
1913
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/lenin/works/1
913/mar/x01.htm
Lenin,
Vladimir
Karl
Marx
1914
914/granat/index.htm
Lenin, Vladimir State and Revolution written
1917
917/staterev/index.htm
Lukcs, Georg History and Class Consciousness
Merlin, London 1971 Chifley HX260.H8.L783
most
of
the
text
is
at
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/lukacs/works/
history/index.htm
Meek, Ronald L. (ed.) Marx and Engels on
Malthus: selections from the writings of Marx
2010
and Engels dealing with the theories of Thomas
Robert Malthus Lawrence and Wishart, London
1953 Menzies HB863.M253
Mehring, Franz Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1969
Molyneux, John What is the Real Marxist
Tradition?
Bookmarks,
London
1985,
www.marxisme.dk/arkiv/molyneux/realmarx/
5
Wheen, Francis Karl Marx Fourth Estate,
London, 1999
General critiques of Marxism
Conway, David A Farewell to Marx Penguin,
Harmondsworth 1987
Wesson, Robert G. Why Marxism? The
continuing success of a failed theory Temple
Smith, London 1976
Molyneux John The Marxist Theory of the Party

Pluto, London 1978
Journals
Nicolaievsky, Boris and Maenchen-Helfen, Otto

Karl Marx: Man and Fighter Penguin,
Harmondsworth 1976
The following Marxist journals include articles

dealing with classical Marxism as well as studies
which apply Marxist ideas:
Ollman, Bertell Alienation Cambridge University

Press, Cambridge, Second Edition 1976
HM291.O58 1976 *
Capital and class online through the ANU

library catalogue (Proquest)
Ollman, Bertell Social and Sexual Revolution

Pluto, London 1979, particularly part 1
HT609.O56 1979 *
Parson, Howard L. (ed.) Marx and Engels on
ecology Greenwood Press, Westport 1977
HX550.E25.M37
Riazanov, David Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels International Publishers, New York 1927,
available on the web at
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/riazanov/work
s/1927-ma/index.htm
Rubel, Maximilien and Manale Margaret Marx
without Myth Blackwell, Oxford 1975
Historical materialism online through the ANU

library catalogue
International socialism www.isj.org.uk
International socialist review (Chicago)
www.isreview.org
Monthly review (New York) online through the
ANU library catalogue (Proquest)
www.monthlyreview.org
Science & society online through the ANU
library catalogue
Socialist review (London)
www.socialistreview.org.uk
Studies in political economy Chifley HM1.S76
Classical Marxism
Course structure
If you have any suggestions about the structure and content of the course they will be welcome. Make
them, the earlier the better, at a seminar or lecture or to Rick in his office.
Week 1 (22 February)
Week 8 (26 April)
Lecture 1 Is Marxism dead?
Lecture 8 Marxist Economics 2
THERE WILL BE SEMINARS IN THE

FIRST WEEK!
Seminar 1 Allocation of seminar topics, discussion
of course, what is Marxism?
Week 2 (1 March)
Lecture 2 Background to the Young Marx
Seminar 2 Marx and Engels The Communist
Manifesto
Week 3 (8 March)
Lecture 3 Dialectics, materialism and Marxs
Method
Seminar 3 Engels Socialism Utopian and Scientific
Week 4 (15 March)

Lecture 4 Marxist economics 1
Seminar 8 Marx The civil war in France
Week 9 (3 May)
Lecture 9 Marxism after Marx 1: The Second
International and Reformism
Seminar 9 Marx Value, Price and Profit and David
Smith and Phil Evans Marxs Kapital for Beginners
Pantheon, New York 1982
Week 10 (10 May)

Lecture 10 Marxism after Marx 2: Communism,
Stalinism and beyond
Seminar 10 Engels The Origins of the Family
Private Property and the State (selections)
SUBMIT RESEARCH ESSAY by 4.00 pm

Monday 10 May
late marks with then apply; no Research essays will we
accepted after 4.00 pm Monday 1 June
Seminar 4 Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of

Classical German Philosophy, Marx Theses on
Feuerbach and Marx Preface to A Contribution
Week 11 (17 May)
to a Critique of Political Economy
Lecture 11 Marxism today
Week 5 (22 March)
Seminar 11 Marx Critique of the Gotha Program

and John Molyneux What is the Real Marxist
Tradition?
Lecture 5 1848 Revolutions and the state

Seminar 5 Marx Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts and Marx The Fetishism of the
Commodity (chapter 1 subsection 4 of Capital
volume 1)
Week 6 (29 March)

Lecture 6 After the 1848 revolutions, the heyday of
19th century capitalism and the First International
Seminar 6 Lenin State and revolution
CLEAR RESEARCH ESSAY TOPIC by

Thursday 1 April
HOLIDAY 2 April to 18 April
Week 7 (19 April)

Lecture 7 The Paris Commune
Seminar 7 Marx and Engels Address of the Central
Committee to the Communist League March 1850,
Marx Inaugural address of the International Working
Mens Association, Rules of the International
Working Mens Association
Week 12 (24 May)

Lecture 12 No lecture
Seminar 12 No seminar
SUBMIT COURSE DIARY by 4.00 pm

Monday 24 May
Week 13 (31 June)

Lecture 13 No lecture
Seminar 13 No seminar
2010
Seminars
Seminar 1
22 February
Allocation of seminar topics, discussion

of course, what is Marxism?
Callinicos, Alex The revolutionary ideas of Karl
Marx Bookmarks, London 1983
Smith, David and Evans Phil Marxs Kapital for
beginners Pantheon, New York 1982 on ClaMs
WebCT page, pp. 6-28
Steele, Mark Karl Marx mp3 file on ClaMs
WebCT page
Seminar 2
1 March
Marx and Engels The Communist

Manifesto
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.
html. Note that there are several audo versions of
the Manifesto on the web and even a cartoon
version.
Additional Reading
Chretien, Todd Ten socialist classics: The
Communist Manifesto Socialist worker (USA)
21 March 2008
http://socialistworker.org/2008/03/21/thecommunist-manifesto
Riazanov/Ryazanoffs annotated edition of The
Communist Manifesto Lawrence, London 1928,
Menzies HX276 .M3 1930
Draper, Hal The Two Souls of Socialism in Hal
Draper Socialism from Below Humanities Press,
New Jersey 1992 pp. 2-33 HX73.D735 1992
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/contemp/pamsetc/t
wosouls/twosouls.htm
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Monthly Review, New York 1990 chapter 1 pp.
1-21 JC233.M299D7 *
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Monthly Review Press, New York 1978 Part I

JC233.M299D7 *
Roelofs, Joan Charles Fourier: Proto-Red
Green Capitalism, Nature Socialism 4(3)
September 1993
Seminar 3
8 March
Engels Socialism Utopian and Scientific

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/do
wnload/Engels_Socialism_Utopian_and_Scientif
ic.pdf
Additional Reading
Gasper, Phil Ten socialist classics: Socialism:
Utopian and Scientific Socialist worker (USA)
11 April 2008
http://socialistworker.org/2008/04/11/socialismutopian-scientific
Ollman, Bertell Introduction in B. Ollman and
E. Vernoff (eds) The Left Academy: Marxist
Scholarship on American Campuses McGraw
Hill, New York 1986 pp xi-xxiv.
most of the text is at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/hi
story/index.htm
Hook, Sidney Towards an Understanding of
Karl Marx Gollanz, London 1933 Part II.
HB97.5.H62 1934
Manuel, Frank and Fritzie Manuel Utopian
thought in the western world Blackwell, Oxford
1979
Marx, Karl Preface to A Contribution to the
Critique of Political Economy
Jakubowski, Franz Ideology and Superstructure
in Historical Materialism Allison and Busby,
London 1976 B809.8.J313 1990 *
Goldmann Lucien The Human Sciences and
Philosophy Cape, London 1969
Classical Marxism
Seminar 4
Seminar 5
15 March
22 March
Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End

of Classical German Philosophy, Marx
Theses on Feuerbach and Marx
Preface to A Contribution to a Critique
of Political Economy
Marx Economic and Philosophical

Manuscripts and Marx The Fetishism
of the Commodity (chapter 1
subsection 4 of Capital volume 1)
Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of

Classical German Philosophy
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/18
86/ludwig-feuerbach/index.htm
Marx Theses on Feuerbach
45/theses/theses.pdf
Marx Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of
Political Economy
59/critique-pol-economy/preface-abs.pdf
Additional Reading
The German Ideology Volume 1 chapter 1
45/german-ideology/index.htm
Prinz, A. Background and Ulterior Motive of
Marxs Preface of 1859 Journal of the History
of Ideas 303, July-September 1969 pp. 437-499
Press, Cambridge Second Edition 1976
HM291.O58 1976
Mandel, Ernest and George Novack The Marxist
Theory of Alienation Pathfinder, New York 1976
Geras, Norman Marx and Human Nature:
Refutation of a Legend Verso, London 1983
B3305.M74G5
Eagleton, Terry Ideology: an introduction Verso,
London, 1991 B823.3.E17 1991
44/manuscripts/labour.htm
67-c1/ch01.htm#S4
Additional Reading
most of the text is at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/hi
story/index.htm
Smith, David and Evans Phil Marxs Kapital for
Beginners Pantheon, New York 1982 on ClaMs
WebCT page
The rest of the Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts
Press, Cambridge Second Edition 1976
HM291.O58 1976
Seminar 6
29 March
Lenin State and revolution

http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/marx/works/1
852/18th-brumaire/index.htm
Additional Reading
Harkin Shawn Ten socialist classics: State and
revolution Socialist worker (USA) 22 July 2008
http://socialistworker.org/2008/07/22/state-andrevolution
Marx La Libert Speech
72/09/08.htm (very short)
Marx, Karl The 18th of Brumaire of Louis
Bonaparte
52/18th-brumaire/index.htm
2010
Marx, Karl Class Struggles in France

50/class-struggles-france/index.htm
Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy Monthly
Review Press, New York 1977 Book II.
JC233.M299D7 *
Hammen, Oscar Red 48ers: Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels Scribner, New York 1969
HX39.5.H25
Tilly, Charles Karl Marx Historian Michigan
Quarterly Review 22, 1988 p640
Price, R. The Revolutions of 1848 Humanities
Press, Atlantic Highlands 1990 GG D387.P75
Timeline of the 1848 revolutions
www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/revs/
1848time.html
Encyclopedia of the 1848 revolutions
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/contents
.htm
Seminar 7
19 April
Additional Reading
Trotsky, Leon Results and Prospects 1906
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/trotsky/1931/t
pr/rp-index.htm
Cliff, Tony Deflected Permanent Revolution
First Published in International Socialism first
series, number 16, Spring 1963
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/contemp/pamsetc/p
ermrev/permrev.html
Henryk, Katz The emancipation of labor: a
history of the First International Greenwood,
New York 1992 HX11.I46K38 1992 *
A variety of historical resources on the
International at the Marxists Internet Archive
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/history/international/i
wma/index.htm
Volume 2: The Politics of Social Classes
Monthly Review Press, New York 1978 Part II.
JC233.M299D7 *
Hallas, Duncan Trotskys Marxism Bookmarks,
London 1984
Cliff, Tony Trotsky: Towards October
Bookmarks, London 1989
Marx and Engels Address of the

Central Committee to the Communist
League March 1850, Marx Inaugural
address of the International Working
Mens Association, Rules of the
International Working Mens
Association
Collins, Henry and Chimen Abramsky Karl

Marx and the British labour movement; years of
the first International, Macmillan, London 1965
HX243.C56 provides details about the
emergence of and developments in the
International
Marx and Engels Address of the Central

Committee to the Communist League March
1850http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/184
7/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm
26 April
Marx Inaugural address of the International

Working Mens Association
64/10/27.htm
Rules of the International Working Mens
Association
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iw
ma/documents/1864/rules.htm
Seminar 8
Marx The civil war in France
Whole book as PDF file
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/downloa
d/Marx_The_Civil_War_in_France.pdf
Read:
Engels Introduction
chapter 5 The Paris Commune
Engels Postscript
Additional Reading
Rapkin, David Ten socialist classics: The Civil
War in France Socialist worker (USA) 9 June
10
Classical Marxism
2008, http://socialistworker.org/2008/06/09/thecivil-war-in-france
Gluckstein, Donny The Paris commune : a
revolution in democracy Bookmarks, London
2006 Chifley DC316.G57 2006
Thomas, Edith The women incendiaries Secker
& Warburg, London 1967 Chifley DC317.T471
Horne, Alistair The Fall of Paris: The Siege and
the Commune 1870-71 Penguin, London 2007
[1965]
Volume 1: State and Bureaucracy Monthly
Review Press, New York 1977 part 2.
JC233.M299D7 *
Kellog, Paul Engels and the Roots of
Revisionism: A Re-Evaluation Science and
Society 55(2) Summer 1991 pp. 158-174
Additional Reading
Marx, Karl Wage-labour and Capital
wnload/Marx_Wage_Labour_and_Capital.pdf
Marx, Karl Capital Volume 1: Chapter 1
sections 1 and 2, chapter 4, chapters 6-7, chapter
9 section 1, chapter 25 sections 1 and 2, chapter
32 http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867c1/index.htm
Mandel, Ernest An Introduction to Marxist
Economic Theory Pathfinder, New York 1979
HB97.5.M26513 1973
http://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/mandel/1967/i
ntromet/index.htm
Sweezy, Paul The Theory of Capitalist
Development Monthly Review Press, New York
1970 HB501.M5S9
Engels, Friedrich The Housing Question
Harman, Chris The economics of the madhouse

Bookmarks, London 1995 HB501.H352 1995 *
Cliff, Tony Lenin Volume 2: All Power to the

Soviets Pluto. London 1976 *
Harman, Chris Explaining the Crisis Bookmarks,

London 1984
Molyneux, John The Marxist Theory of the Party

Pluto, London 1978 HX36.M65 1978
Saad-Filho, Alfredo, The value of Marx: political

economy for contemporary capitalism
Routledge, London 2002 Chifley HB97.5 .S18
2002
Edwards, Stewart The Paris Commune, 1871

Quadrangle Books, New York 1977 Chifley
DC316.E3 1977
History of the Paris Commune
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/pariscommune/index.htm
Seminar 9
3 May
King, John E. Marxian Economics Gower,

Aldershot 1990
Wicksteed, Philip Henry The marxian theory of
value. Das Kapital: a criticism The common
sense of political economy, and selected papers
and reviews on economic theory Routledge,
London 1942-1944 Chifley HB171.W6 v.1, v.2
Seminar 10
Marx Value, Price and Profit and David

Smith and Phil Evans Marxs Kapital
for Beginners Pantheon, New York
1982
10 May
Marx Value, Price and Profit especially from

section six, Value and labour to the end of the
pamphlet
65/value-price-profit/ch02.htm#c6
Engels The Origins of the Family

Private Property and the State
(selections)
Smith and Evans accessible through ClaMs

Wattle site: http://wattle.anu.edu.au/
SUBMIT RESEARCH ESSAY by 4.00 pm

Monday 10 May
wnload/Engels_The_Origin_of_the_Family_Priv
ate_Property_and_the_Stat.pdf
In particular, read:
Preface
2010
chapter 2 The family, section 4 The
monogamous family, from the words We thus
have three principal forms to the end of the
seciton
chapter 9 Barbarism and civilisation
Additional Reading
Schulte, Elizabeth Ten socialist classics: Origin
of the Family, Private Property and the State
Socialist worker (USA) 12 May 2008,
http://socialistworker.org/2008/05/12/originfamily-private-property
Leacock, Eleanor Burke Introduction to
Friedrich Engels The Origins of the Family
Private Property and the State International
Publishers, New York 1975 HQ504.E6 1975
Draper, Hal Marx and Engels on Womens
Liberation in Roberta Salper (ed.) Female
Liberation Knopf, New York 1972 HQ1426.S24
also E-reserve
Leacock, Eleanor Burke, Myths of male
dominance: collected articles on women crossculturally, Monthly Review Press, New York,
1981, Menzies GN479.7.L4 1981
German, Lindsey. Sex, Class and Socialism
Bookmarks 1989 HQ1593.G47 1989 discusses
the nature of the family, women in the workforce
and strategies for womens liberation
Bloch, Maurice Marxism and Anthropology
Clarendon, Oxford 1983
Sacks, Karen Engels revisited: women, the
organization of production, and private property
in Rayna Reiter (ed.), Toward an anthropology
of women, Monthly Review Press, New York,
1975 Menzies GN479.7.T68
Smith, Sharon Engels and the origin of womens
oppression International socialist review 2, Fall
1997 pp. 38-47
Coontz, Stephanie and Peta Henderson (eds)
Womens work, mens property: the origins of
gender and class, Verso, London, 1986 Menzies
GN479.65.W65 1986
Terray, Emmanuel Marxism and Primitive
Societies Monthly Review Press, New York
1972
German, Lindsey Material girls: women, men
and work Bookmarks, London 2007
11
Seminar 11
17 May
Marx Critique of the Gotha Program

and John Molyneux What is the Real
Marxist Tradition?
Marx Critique of the Gotha Program
wnload/Marx_Critque_of_the_Gotha_Programm
e.pdf
John Molyneux What is the Real Marxist
Tradition?
www.marxisme.dk/arkiv/molyneux/realmarx/ind
ex.htm
Additional Reading
Volume 4: Critique of Other Socialisms Monthly
Review Press, New York 1990 JC233.M299D7
Joll, James The Second International 1889-1914
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1974
HX11.I5J6 1974
Tudor, H and Tudor, J. M. (eds) Marxism and
Social Democracy: the Revisionism Debate
1896-1898 Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge 1988
Luxemburg, Rosa Social Reform and Revolution
(various editions and in various selections of her
work, nb some translations are much better than
others) e.g. Selected political writing Cape,
London 1972 HX273.L8215
Rees, John In Defence of October International
Socialism 52 Autumn 1991 pp. 3-82
Hobsbawm, Eric The Fortunes of Marxs and
Engels Writings in Hobsbawm, E. (ed.) The
History of Marxism Volume One: Marxism in
Marxs Day Harvester, Brighton 1982 pp. 327344
Lenin, Vladimir Left-Wing Communism an
infantile disorder
Trotsky, Leon The Struggle Against Fascism in
Germany Penguin, Harmondsworth 1975
DD240.T74 or Fascism, Stalinism and the
United Front Bookmarks, London 1989
Germany: the key to the international situation
and What is National Socialism
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Hook, Sidney Towards an Understanding of

Karl Marx Gollancz, London 1933 HX97.5.H67
*
Haynes, Mike Russia: class and power in the
twentieth century Bookmarks, London 2003
Week 12
24 May
No lecture or seminar
SUBMIT COURSE DIARY BY 4.00 pm
Monday 24 May
Week 13
(31 June)
No lecture or seminar
2010
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Course procedures
Organising your work
Effectively organising your work and
establishing a balance between course
requirements and other, perhaps more appealing,
aspects of your life is an important survival skill
at university and elsewhere. The Academic
Skills and Learning Centre (ground floor
Pauline Griffin Building No 11, 6125-2972) can
help you in developing this skill. If you have
problems organising your work then consult the
staff at the Centre who have lots of experience in
assisting students. If you have any learning
disabilities Rick and your tutor are happy to
discuss strategies for dealing with them in the
context of the course.
Help is available
The Academic Skills and Learning Centre
(ground floor Pauline Griffin Building No 11,
6125-2972) can give you assistance to improve
your ability to meet the requirements of
university study, including note taking, essay
writing and understanding what teachers want.
The Counselling Service (first floor,
Counselling Centre & Health Services Building,
next to Sports Union, 6125-2442) is there to help
you deal with personal and family problems.
The Jabal Centre (lower ground floor, Melville
Hall, 6125-3520) provides support for
Aboriginal Students.
The Health Service (ground floor, Counselling
Centre & Health Services Building, next to
Sports Union, 6125-3598) has doctors (GPs) and
nurses on staff who can help with medical
problems.
The Disability Services Unit (Student Facilities
Building,
Union
Court,
above
the
Commonwealth Bank, opposite the Union
Refectory, 6125-5036) acts as the University
contact point for students with disabilities.
Inclusive language
You are encouraged to be precise in your speech
and writing. For example, when you mean the
male sex then man may be the appropriate
term, but not if the human species as a whole is
meant. Referring to a male person as he is fine
but not if the person referred to could be female.
Assessment scheme
Assessment
The second examiner for this course is Alastair
Greig. Assessment items will not be accepted
for marking more than two weeks after their
due dates. Your final mark will be weighted
within the limits indicated to maximise the
outcome. The following is proposed as
assessment for this course:
Seminar introduction paper (1000 words)
Submit by the following seminar
Weighting Min 10% Max 20%
Course Diary
Submit by 4.00 pm Monday 24 May
Research essay (3 000 words)
Clear topic by week of Thursday 1 April
Submit by 4.00 pm Monday 10 May
Note
a) regular attendance and active participation
in seminars (at least seven of the ten seminars)
is a prerequisite for passing this course.
b) your Research essay and seminar
introduction should be on distinct topics.
Discussion of assessment scheme

The assessment scheme for the course will be
discussed in early lectures and seminars.
Participation
All students should come to the seminars with
questions arising from and/or comments about
the reading. Regular attendance and active
participation in at seminars (at least seven of
the eleven seminars) is a prerequisite for
passing the course.
Course diary
Due 4.00 pm Monday 24 May
No diaries will be accepted for marking after
4.00 pm Monday 1 June
Reading and understanding what Marx and
Engels and later Marxists wrote and meant is the
key aspect of this course. The idea of the course
diary is that you keep track of your reading for
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the course, your reactions (intellectual and/or
analytical and/or emotional) to it and other
reflections (on any kind of issue, reading or
experience) that are relevant to the course. The
diary can be in an exercise book or separate
sheets stapled together for submission. Note
down what you read and when, along with your
reaction to the work and/or a summary and/or
thoughts about its adequacy or contemporary
relevance. This is not meant to involve polished
work or mini-essays, but rather to be an aid to
your understanding. Full sentences and perfect
syntax are not essential, though legibility is
important. It is also vital that you write up the
diary week by week, rather than at the end of
the course as it is due the week after lectures and
tutes end. The diary must have a course cover
sheet (at the back of this guide), fully filled in
with the statement about acknowledgement,
collaboration and resubmission signed.
Seminar introduction
All students are required to speak for about ten
minutes introducing at least one seminar topic.
Students are encouraged to collaborate in the
preparation of seminar introductions. Seminar
introductions should
1. Outline the structure of the argument in the
text, that is the steps it goes through to reach
its main conclusions.
2. Identify issues, questions and controversies
arising from the reading which the group can
discuss. You can raise any difficulties or
criticisms you have with any of the reading
(including weaknesses in presentation,
arguments or logic), the context of its
production and its implications for the
application of Marxist concepts.
In order to get feedback, you may distribute a
draft of your paper to all participants at your
seminar.
The idea is that the seminar introduction should
be a basis for discussion in the group. As with
other reports (oral or written) your arguments
and conclusions will be valued if they are
logical, coherent and backed up with evidence.
You should time your introduction before you
deliver it, to make sure it is not too long or too
short.
Seminar introduction paper 1 000 words
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Due with one week of the seminar in which it
is presented
Seminar papers will not be accepted for
marking after two weeks after the seminar in
which it was presented
Format
The paper should
be 1 000 words long (plus or minus 100)
be double spaced
be on A4 paper
have a 3 cm left margin
have numbered pages
have a course cover sheet (at the back of this
guide), fully filled in with the statement about
acknowledgement,
collaboration
and
resubmission signed
preferably be typed
be stapled in the top left corner
not be in a plastic or other folder or envelope
be submitted through the School essay box,
outside the School office (Copland Room
2147).
Keep a spare copy of your paper in case the
submitted one goes astray.
Assessment criteria
When assessing your essays, the marker will take
the above into account and ask the following
questions about your essay:
Focus: Did the paper deal with the important
issues raised by the topic and raise useful
questions that related to them?
Argument: How clearly were the issues
presented? Were your assertions backed by
sufficient evidence?
Research: What was the depth of your reading
and research? Has a range of empirical
sources and other sources been consulted
and used to back up arguments?
Critical reading: Did you read critically? Does
the paper indicate awareness of different
perspectives on and/or theories relevant to
the topic?
Expression: Is the paper written in a clear,
precise and readable style, appropriate for an
academic essay?
Referencing and format: Did you supply proper
references (no bibliography is necessary), as
outlined on page 16? Did you use follow the
guidelines for formatting your paper on page
14.
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Submission
Submit your paper to the essay box at the School
office (Copland Room 2147). The Schools
administrative staff keeps a record of essays etc
received. So if it goes missing you are covered.
For this reason do not submit essays direct to
Rick and certainly not under his office door.
Marks will be deducted at the rate of 2% per
working day for papers received after the due
date. No papers will be accepted for marking
after two weeks after the due date.
Research essay/project
3 000 words
Clear topic by week of Thursday 1 April
Due 4.00 pm Monday 10 May
No Research essays will be accepted for
marking after 4.00 pm Monday 1 June
Working out your own topic has advantages, in
particular that you are really interested in it.
Essay questions can be related to influences on
classical Marxist thought, specific aspects of
classical Marxism (its methodology, treatment of
specific events or issues), its application to
contemporary or historical issues.
Your Research essay should:
be on a topic distinct from that dealt with in at
least one of the seminars you introduced.
be based on research notes which must be
available for submission to the examiner if
required. Should you be unable to provide
your research notes when required, the essay
may be given a mark of zero.
make use material beyond the references in
this course guide.
have footnotes and a bibliography using the
format indicated under Referencing and
bibliographies below. Marks will be
deducted for inadequate references in notes
and the bibliography.
Topic
Select a topic and clear it with Rick, preferably
by Thursday 1 April, using the Approval Form at
the back of this Guide. The material discussed in
seminars and lectures provides considerable
scope for developing topics. You may not write
an Research essay on the same seminar topic for
which you do a presentation.
An essay is an argument, it is not a series of
facts, descriptions or quotations. The point of
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any essay is not just to show the amount of
information you know about a particular topic,
but to develop and demonstrate your ability to
think critically, in terms of, for example,
assessing other peoples arguments, applying
theories, explaining developments, comparing
arguments or empirical material and using
empirical material to support your own
arguments. Bear these considerations in mind
both when you select your essay question and
when you answer it.
Group work
You are encouraged to work in groups on
projects, which examine a topic at greater length
than an essay would. Project work should
involve group discussions approach, conclusions
and final product. The length of projects is 3 000
words plus 2 000 words for each extra
participant e.g. 4 000 words for two people,
7 000 words for three people, 21 000 for ten
people.
Format
The Research essay should
be 3 000 words long (plus or minus 300)
be double spaced
be on A4 paper
have a 3 cm left margin
have numbered pages
have a course cover sheet (at the back of this
guide), fully filled in with the statement about
acknowledgement,
collaboration
and
resubmission signed
preferably be typed
include a bibliography
be stapled in the top left corner
not be in a plastic or other folder or envelope
be submitted through the School essay box,
outside the School office (Copland Room
2147).
Keep a spare copy of your Research essay in
case the submitted one goes astray.
Assessment criteria
When assessing your Research essays, the
marker will take the above into account and ask
the following questions about your essay:
Focus: How well did you answer the question
and address the main issues?
Argument: How well did you argue a case in
your essay; are the subarguments well
organised; is the structure logical and
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thought out? Were your main assertions
backed by sufficient evidence?
Research: What was the depth of your reading
and research? Has a range of empirical
sources and other sources been consulted
and used to back up arguments?
Critical reading: Did you read critically? Does
the essay indicate awareness of different
perspectives on and/or theories relevant to
the topic?
Expression: Is the essay written in a clear,
precise and readable style, appropriate for an
academic essay?
Referencing and format: Did you supply proper
references and a full bibliography , as
outlined on page 16? Did you use follow the
guidelines for formatting your essay on page
15.
Submission
Submit your Research essay to the essay box at
the School office (Copland Room 2147). The
Schools administrative staff keeps a record of
essays etc received. So if it goes missing you are
covered. For this reason do not submit essays
direct to Rick and certainly not under his office
door.
Marks will be deducted at the rate of 2% per
working day for Research essays received
after 4.00 pm Monday 10 May. No Research
essays will generally be accepted for marking
after 4.00 pm Monday 1 June.
Referencing and bibliographies

The point of references and bibliographies is to
allow readers to check or follow up the sources
of your arguments, facts and opinions. They need
to be accurate and include all the information
people will need to find what you found. In this
course, use the following as a model for
referencing.
The first reference to a work in an essays
footnote and all bibliographical citations should
include author, title, publisher, place of
publication, date. In footnotes, the authors
first name should precede their surname, in
bibliographies the surname should come first.
Reference to a book (in bibliography)
Grossmann, Henryk The law of accumulation
and breakdown of the capitalist system: being
also a theory of crises, Pluto Press, London,
1992 (originally published 1929)
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For journal articles in addition to the authors
name and the title of the article, include the
journal, volume and number of journal, and date
of publication.
Jacobs, Jack Marxism and anti-semitism:
Kautskys perspective International review
of social history 30 (3) 1985 pp. 400-430
For articles in edited collections, in addition to
the authors name and the title of the article
include the editors name, title, publisher, place
of publication and date.
Benjamin, Walter Theses on the philosophy
of history in Stephen Bronner and Douglas
Kellner Critical theory and society Routledge,
New York 1989 pp. 260-261
Material found on the web should also be
properly referenced. Where possible, your
reference should include all of the following
information: author of specific work/page, title
of work, author/owner of site, title of site, date
work published on the web, web address, date
you accessed the work, full reference to hard
copy version of the work if there was one.
Vogt, Annette Emil Julius Gumbel (18911966): the first editor of Karl Marxs
mathematical manuscripts MEGA-Studien
1995 2 pp. 26-41
www.bbaw.de/vh/mega/studien_eng.html#vo
gt, accessed 14 December 2001
The first time you cite a source in a footote, give
the full reference. If the same source is referred
to in the note immediately after you indicate this
by writing ibid. (short for ibidem, Latin for
again) and give the specific page reference.
5. Henryk Grossmann The Law of
accumulation and breakdown of the capitalist
system: being also a theory of crises, Pluto
Press, London, 1992, p. 37.
6. ibid., pp. 87-93.
If you refer to a source you have already used in
a previous note, but not the one immediately
before, write authors surname and an
abbreviated version of the title, followed by use
op. cit (short for opere citato, Latin for in the
work quoted), followed by the specific page
reference
10. Grossmann The law of accumulation, op.
cit. p. 107.
For more information about the footnotes system
see the Style manual for authors, editors and
printers Wiley, Brisbane, sixth edition 2002.
2010
Bibliographies should be in alphabetical order by
author. Entries should start with the authors
surnames.
Extensions and late penalties

Extensions will only be granted if applications
are made before the submission dates. Faculty of
Arts policy is that two percent is deducted from
the mark for that piece of work for each working
day it is late. No piece of work will be accepted
for marking more than three weeks after its due
date, without an extension.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is copying, paraphrasing or
summarising,
without
acknowl
edgement, any work of another person so that it
seems to be your own work. Acknowledgement
includes reference to the source of information or
specific words and clearly indicating which
words you are quoting by using quotation marks
or indenting a quoted paragraph. Plagiarism
occurs whether or not it is with the knowledge or
consent of the person whose work you plagiarise.
For ANU policy and procedures regarding
academic honesty, plagiarism and appeals, please
visit
http://policies.anu.edu.au/policies/code_of_practi
ce_for_student_academic_integrity/policy
If you plagiarise, the chances of being caught
are high and the penalties are severe. Even a
small amount of work which is your own is
worth more, both in terms of your learning and
marks, than any amount of plagiarism. Students
who have plagiarised in this School have been
caught and have failed as a consequence. If you
are unclear about how and when to reference
material see the instructions for referencing in
this course on page 16 and/or consult your tutor
and/or refer to the Political Science Essay
writing guide
http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/POLSEssayGuide.pdf
Appeals procedures
If you genuinely believe you have received an
inappropriate or incorrect result in an Arts unit,
there are steps you can take to have that result
reviewed.
See
http://cass.anu.edu.au/
current-students/rules-and-policies/appeals.
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What grades mean

Really
A system of allocating marks to students
work that
trains students to follow often abitrary
instructions in return for rewards (that
forshadow wages) in preparation for doing
the same in the labour market.
adjusts students expectations about their
capacities and likely remuneration when they
enter the full-time labour market.
provides, when aggregated, employers with
indications of the kind of skills prospective
employees have.
Officially
High Distinction (Above 80)
Work of exceptional quality showing a
command of subject matter and appreciation
of issues
Has a clearly formulated argument which is
developed throughout the work
Engages the question or topic throughout the
assignment
Demonstrates wide reading of relevant
literature
Very well expressed
High level of intellectual work
Distinction (70-79)
Work of high quality showing strong grasp
of subject matter and appreciation of major
issues though not necessarily of the finer
points
Has a clear argument which may not be fully
sustained throughout the work
Masters most of the concepts and issues
raised by the question
Shows diligent research
Clearly expressed
Good intellectual work
Credit (60-69)
Work of good quality showing an
understanding of subject matter and
appreciation of main issues though possibly
with some lapses and inadequacies
Has an argument which may not be fully
sustained throughout the essay and is
possibly marred by minor weaknesses
Fair range of reading
Well prepared and presented
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Expression may need improvement in places
Solid intellectual work
Pass (50-59)
Work of fair quality showing awareness of
the main issues in the question but has
difficulty framing a relevant response
Argument may be weak
Takes a factual approach and does not
attempt to interpret the findings
Modest level of research
Written expression and scholarly conventions
need improvement
Competent intellectual work
Fail (Below 50)
Work of poor quality
A lack of understanding or misconception of
the issues and concepts raised in the question
No clear argument is presented
Insufficient grasp of the relevance and
interrelatedness of the material being
presented
Poorly researched
Expression that is difficult to understand
Careless about scholarly conventions,
spelling and other aspects of presentation
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Writing Essays
In practice it is difficult, if not impossible, to separate out the form of an essay from its content. You
may have the best, most original ideas but be unable to convey them to a reader. Essay writing is an
exercise in communication. It has some peculiarities, like references and a focus on the specified topic,
but shares features with other forms of communication.
Essays are or should be arguments which address the essay question. Telling a story may be
entertaining but it is not enough. You need to make a case for a particular position and organise
subarguments, evidence, references etc to persuade the reader of the correctness of your analysis. In
particular it is necessary to think carefully about the structure of your argument:
what is the overall argument, i.e. what do you want people to conclude from the essay (it should be
possible to summarise this in a couple of sentences at most)?
what is the structure of your argument, the logic of your case?
which points, examples, quotations should come first, in what order should they all go?
is there a need for empirical evidence to support your argument and the assertions that constitute it?
If you want to convince the person reading your essay of the correctness of the case you make, you
will need to conduct research. This will provide you with additional arguments and evidence and
enable you to refer the reader to the sources of these for more details and so they can be checked. So
you should not confine your research to just a couple of articles or books on the reading list. Your
essay will be stronger if you present well founded and supported arguments and evidence which are
the product of your independent reading.
Think about your prose style. The way you put together your phrases, sentences and paragraphs makes
a difference to how easy your argument is to understand. To get into practice, try analysing the styles
of different authors you have to read in this and other courses. Which ones are the easiest to
understand? Why? How do they do it? For particularly lucid prose read, for example, some George
Orwell (Homage to Catalonia), Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians). Orwells Politics and the
English Language in Inside the Whale and Other Essays Penguin Harmondsworth 1966 is an
excellent guide to clear writing. It is on the web at
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/orwell.html
and
http://eserver.org/theory/politics-and-englishlang.txt.
If you are not sure about referencing, preparing bibliographies or the spelling of a word then look it up
or check the right procedure. Dictionaries are not hard to find. The Australian bible for the correct
use of abbreviations punctuation, the two different referencing systems (notes and Harvard/author
date), bibliographies etc. is the Style manual for authors, editors and printers 6th edition Wiley,
Brisbane 2002 available at the information desk, Chifley Library.
The secret of readable essays
Try to organise your work so you can come back to your essay after a break of at least a few
days. Reread it. Unless you are perfect or incredibly unselfcritical you will quickly see
improvements you can make. It doesnt hurt to get a friend to read your essay through so s/he
can point out typos, spelling mistakes and grammatical atrocities.
The Political Science Essay Writing Guide ((http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/POLSEssayGuide.PDF)) also
includes useful pointers on essay writing including referencing systems. If you have problems with any
aspect of essay writing, having already tried to overcome them by yourself, see Rick or your tutor
about them or talk to someone at the Academic Skills and Learning Centre (lower ground Floor
Chancelry Annex, 6125-2972).
Classical Marxism: POLS2061 2010
Seminar introduction cover sheet

Your name
_________________________________________
Student number
Seminar day and time
__________________________________
Phone
Email address (if checked regularly)___________________________________
Seminar topic: ___________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Research essay topic: _______________________________________

Number of words in paper ____________
Submission of this assessment item constitutes a declaration that
No part of this work has been copied from any other persons work except where due acknowledgement is makde in the text; and
No part of this work is written by another person, except where such collaboration has been authorised by the course lecturer
concerned; and
No part of this work has been submitted for assessment in another course.
The Faculty policy on plagiarism can be found at http://arts.anu.edu.au/student_information/current/rules/
Signature
_____________________________
Date _________________
You should be familiar with the Universitys Code of practice on academic honesty in learning and teaching at
http://policies.anu.edu.au/policies/code_of_practice_for_student_academic_integrity/policy
Research essay cover sheet and approval form

Submit for approval by Thursday 1 April. Due date: 4.00 pm Monday 10 May
Your name
____________________________________
Student number
_____________________________
Phone
Email address (if checked regularly) ______________________________________
Essay topic
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________
Seminar topic
___________________________________________________
Approved __________________________
Date _________________________
Number of words in essay ____________

concerned; and
Signature
________________________
Date _______________
Course diary cover sheet

Due date 4.00 pm Monday 24 May
Your name
____________________________________
Student number
_____________________________
Phone
Email address (if checked regularly)___________________________________

concerned; and
Signature
________________________
Date _______________
Contents
Vital first steps
Basic Information
Reading and discussion
How to read
Course structure
Seminars
Course procedures
13
Organising Your work
13
Help is available
13
Inclusive language
13
Assessment
13
Participation
13
Course diary
13
Seminar introduction
14
Seminar introduction paper
14
Research essay/project
15
Referencing and bibliographies
16
Extensions and late penalties
17
Plagiarism
17
Appeals procedures
17
What grades mean
17
Writing essays
19
Approval forms and cover sheets
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POLS2061 semester 1 2010

M. M. Cheremnykh The menagerie of the future

Vital first steps

Faculty of Arts Office

Room 2147 Copland Building

ground floor Haydon-Allen Building

Manning Clark Theatre 4

Hume Centre Copland 1171

(below Social Sciences office)

Reading and discussion

This course revolves around the seminars.

The points below are questions you should

Other co-operative activity

The text itself

Note, however, that many of the texts we

Molyneux John The Marxist Theory of the Party

Nicolaievsky, Boris and Maenchen-Helfen, Otto

The following Marxist journals include articles

Ollman, Bertell Alienation Cambridge University

Capital and class online through the ANU

Ollman, Bertell Social and Sexual Revolution

Historical materialism online through the ANU

Week 1 (22 February)

Week 8 (26 April)

Lecture 1 Is Marxism dead?

Lecture 8 Marxist Economics 2

THERE WILL BE SEMINARS IN THE

Week 4 (15 March)

Seminar 8 Marx The civil war in France

Week 10 (10 May)

SUBMIT RESEARCH ESSAY by 4.00 pm

Seminar 4 Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of

Week 11 (17 May)

to a Critique of Political Economy

Lecture 11 Marxism today

Week 5 (22 March)

Seminar 11 Marx Critique of the Gotha Program

Lecture 5 1848 Revolutions and the state

Week 6 (29 March)

CLEAR RESEARCH ESSAY TOPIC by

Week 7 (19 April)

Week 12 (24 May)

SUBMIT COURSE DIARY by 4.00 pm

Week 13 (31 June)

Allocation of seminar topics, discussion

Marx and Engels The Communist

Monthly Review Press, New York 1978 Part I

Engels Socialism Utopian and Scientific

Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End

Marx Economic and Philosophical

Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of

Lenin State and revolution

Marx, Karl Class Struggles in France

Marx and Engels Address of the

Collins, Henry and Chimen Abramsky Karl

Marx and Engels Address of the Central

Marx Inaugural address of the International

Engels, Friedrich The Housing Question

Harman, Chris The economics of the madhouse

Cliff, Tony Lenin Volume 2: All Power to the

Harman, Chris Explaining the Crisis Bookmarks,

Molyneux, John The Marxist Theory of the Party

Saad-Filho, Alfredo, The value of Marx: political