Reading Group
SAIC:
SAIC, 112 S. Michigan Ave
Every Saturday 1-4pm.
UChicago:
The Reynolds Club South Lounge, 5706 S. University Ave.
Every Saturday 1-4pm.
Loyola:
The Crown Center for the Humanities, 1001 W Loyola Ave. Room 530.
Every Sunday 1-4pm.
For specific dates and times click on the calendar
Week 1
* Cliff Slaughter, “What is Revolutionary Leadership?” (1960)
* Rosa Luxemburg, “The Crisis of German Social Democracy” Part 1 (1915)
Week 2
* J. P. Nettl, “The German Social Democratic Party 1890-1914 as a Political Model” (1965)
- James Joll, The Second International 1889-1914 (1966)
Week 3
* Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution? (1900/08)
Week 4
* Lenin, What is to be Done? (1902)
Week 5
* Spartacist League, Lenin and the Vanguard Party (1978)
- Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
Week 6
* Leon Trotsky, Results and Prospects (1906)
- Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
Week 7
* Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Week 8
* Rosa Luxemburg, “What does the Spartacus League Want?,”
* Rosa Luxemburg, “On the Spartacus Programme” (1918)
- Sebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-19 (1968)
Week 9
* Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
Week 10
Week 11
* Trotsky, The Lessons of October (1924)
- Luxemburg, “The Russian Tragedy” (1918), “Order Reigns in Berlin” (1919)
Week 12
Week 13
* Adorno, “Reflections on Class Theory” (1942)
Week 14
* Adorno, “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis,” “Resignation” (1969)
- Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, correspondence on the German New Left (1969); Esther Leslie, Introduction to the 1969 Adorno-Marcuse correspondence (1999)
- Adorno, “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” (AKA “Is Marx Obsolete?,” 1968)