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, Room 330.
Every Sunday 1-4pm.

For specific dates and times click on the calendar

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Week 1

• Moishe Postone, “History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary
Forms of Anticapitalism” (2006)
• Fred Halliday, “Who is Responsible?” (2005)
+ Iraqi Communist Party, Letter about the Situation in Iraq (2006)
+ Spartacist League, “The Senile Dementia of Post-Marxism” (2006)

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Week 2

• Leszek Kolakowski, “The Concept of the Left” (1968)

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Week 3

Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (1926–31)
• Theodor W. Adorno, “Imaginative Excesses” (1944–47)
• Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti, “ ‘Action Will Be Taken’: Left
Anti-Intellectualism and its Discontents” (2002)

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Week 4

• Marx, “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts” (1844)
• Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

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Week 5

• Georg Lukács, “The Phenomenon of Reification” (Part I of “Reification and the Con-sciousness of the Proletariat,” 1923)

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Week 6

• Siegfried Kracauer, “The Mass Ornament” (1927)
• Wilhelm Reich, “Ideology as Material Power” (1933/46)

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Week 7

• C. Wright Mills, “Letter to the New Left” (1960)
+ Carl Oglesby, “The Idea of the New Left” (1969)

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Week 8

• Max Shachtman, Race and Revolution (AKA Communism and the Negro, 1933)

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Week 9

• Richard Fraser, “Two Lectures on the Black Question in America and Revolutionary
Integrationism” (1953)
• James Robertson and S. Stoute, “For Black Trotskyism” (1963)
+ Spartacist League, “Black and Red: Class Struggle Road to Negro Freedom” (1966)
+ Bayard Rustin, “The Failure of Black Separatism” (1970)

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Week 10

• Adolph Reed, “The ‘Black Revolution’ and the Reconstitution of Domination” (AKA “Black Particularity Reconsidered,” 1979)
+ Reed, “Paths to Critical Theory” (1984)

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Week 11

• Martin Nicolaus, “The Unknown Marx” (1968)
• Postone, “Necessity, Labor, and Time” (1978)

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Week 12

• Karl Korsch, “Marxism and Philosophy” (1924)
+ Marx, “To Make the World Philosophical” (1839–41) and “For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing” (1843)
+ Korsch, “The Marxism of the First International” (1924)

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Week 13

• Marx, selections from The Grundrisse (1858/1971)

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Week 14

• Lukács, “Preface” (1922) [History and Class Consciousness]
• “What is Orthodox Marxism?” (1919) [ History and Class Consciousness ]
• “Class Consciousness” (1920) [ History and Class Consciousness ]

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Week 15

• Juliet Mitchell, “Women: the Longest Revolution” (1966)
• Clara Zetkin and V. I. Lenin, “An interview on the woman question” (1920)

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Week 16

• Adorno, “Sexual Taboos and the Law Today” (1963)
• John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity” (1983)