WEEK TWO
POLITICAL POWER AND CLASS STRUGGLE, @ 12 PM
JULY 7: Politics and Emancipation: Marx’s On the Jewish Question
(Kostas Gousis / Victor Strazzeri)
Karl Marx (1843), “On the Jewish Question”, in Marx and Engels Collected Works, v. 3, pp. 146-174.
Georg Lukács ([1968] 1991), The Process of Democratization, SUNY Press, “Part I. Bourgeois Democracy as a False Alternative for the Reform of Socialism”, pp. 71 – 81.
JULY 8: Nicos Poulantzas: Political Power and Social Classes (Peter Bratsis / Panagiotis Sotiris)
Nicos Poulantzas, Political Power and Social Classes, Verso:
Part 1 “General Questions”, Chapters 1, 2, 3
JULY 11: On The Growing Fascistization of Life and the Disorientation About the Ways to Combat It. (Carlos Frade)
Ugo Palheta (2021) Fascism, Fascisation, Antifascism, https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/fascism-fascisation-antifascism
See critical responses by Enzo Traverso (2021) Universal Fascism? A Response to Ugo Palheta, https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/universal-fascism-response-to-ugo-palheta
and David Renton (2021) On Violence: A Reply to Ugo Palheta’s ‘Fascism, Fascisation, Antifascism’, https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/violence-reply-to-ugo-palhetas-fascism-fascisation-antifascism
Moore, H and Tracy, J (2020) NO Fascist USA: The John Brown ANTI-KLAN Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (the Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley is excellent). San Francisco: City Lights.
JULY 12: City and Class Struggle (Alkistis Prepis)
Lefebvre, Henri. Writings on Cities. Translated by Eleonore Kofman και Elizabeth Lebas. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2000.
Chapter 7: The Specificity of the City (100-103)
Chapter 14: The Right to the City (147-159)
Harvey, David. Rebel Cities. From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. London, New York: Verso Books, 2012
Chapter 5: Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle (115-140, 151-153)
JULY 13: Re-evaluating Tolerance (Michael Pelias & Peter Bratsis)
Repressive Tolerance from: Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore, Jr., and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), pp. 95-137.