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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.