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Platypus Marxist Reading Group: Revolutions in 1848
November 5, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This week we’ll be looking at Marx’s response to the European Revolutions of 1848 and the political conclusions he drew from their failure. All welcome!
• required reading
• Karl Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847) http://shamiller.net/phi030/docs/marxCrop.pdf (pp. 218-220)
• Marx, Class struggle and mode of production (letter to Weydemeyer, 1852) http://bit.ly/2ieW7X1 (pp. 218-220)
• Friedrich Engels, The tactics of social democracy (Engels’s 1895 introduction to Marx, The Class Struggles in France) (pp. 556-573) http://bit.ly/2hkxtEZ
• Marx, selections from The Class Struggles in France 1848–50 (1850) (pp. 586-593) http://bit.ly/2xxYA5o
• Marx, selections from The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852) http://bit.ly/2zY6yX7 (pp. 594-617)
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