An Introduction to Marxism

 

SYLLABUS

 

 

READINGS:

Biosafety of Genetically Modified Food and Other Agricultural Products

Brenner, Conclusion of Women and the Politics of Class, Conclusion

Collapse of USSR and European Socialist Countries, by Erwin Marquit

Commission on Rural Life, CPUSA, The Biosafety of Genetically Modified Food and Other Agricultural Products

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Contradiction as Source of Structure and Development in Nature, Society, and Thought,  by Erwin Marquit

Domestic and International Class Struggle in a Harmonious Socialist-Oriented Market Economy, by Erwin Marquit

Effect of Economic Globalization on Developing Countries, by Nguyen Dang Thanh

Engels, Excerpt from Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, RMP 47–53

Engels, Chapter 2 of Origin of the Family, State, and Private Property

Fidel Castro Speech at University of Havana, Nov. 17, 2005

From the Bottom Up, by Sterling Stuckey

Handout on the Average Rate of Profit

Handout on Concept of Matter, by Erwin Marquit

Ideological Struggle and the Socialist Market Economy, by Erwin Marquit

Is There Working Class in U.S. Literature? Race, Ethnicity, and the Proletarian Literary Tradition, by Tim Libretti

Marxism and Literary Criticism, Chap. 3, by Terry Eagleton

Marxist-Leninist Concept of Matter, by Erwin Marquit

NST Study Tour in Vietnam, by Erwin Marquit

Philosophy of Technology, by Erwin Marquit

On Developments in the Socialist Countries, by Erwin Marquit

Organizing in the Depression South by James S. Allen

Relections on Socialism, by Sam Webb

Selections from Marx and Engels in the Reader in Marxist Philosophy, 188-91, 199-206,211-23

Selections from Marx, Engels, Lenin and Brecht on aesthetics

Selections from Tom McGrath

Shock Therapy: GDR Women in Transition from a Socialist Welfare State to a Social Market Economy, by Dorothy J Rosenberg   

Socialism over a Century: Retrospect and Prospect, by Li Shenming

Some Principal Factors Contributing to the Collapse of the USSR, by Erwin Marquit

Women and Socialism, Doris Grieser. Marquit

Women’s Issues: Marxist Bibliography