6/13 Readings | Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto and Vladimir Lenin with Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser

Primary text: Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) in Later Political Writings, trans. Terrell Carver (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) in The Marx-Engels Collected Works, Vol. 6 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2014) online at www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto Secondary text:… Continue Reading

2/13 READINGS | Marx’s Debates on the Thefts of Wood and Michel Foucault

Primary text: Karl Marx, Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood (1842) in Karl Marx-Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 1 (Karl Marx: 1835-1843) (New York: International Publishers, 1975), pp. 224-263. on-line at https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1842/10/25.htm Secondary text: Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures… Continue Reading

Bernard E. Harcourt | Host

Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary… Continue Reading