George C. Comninel
 
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Courses
POLS 3020
Utopia, Power and
Sovereignty

Readings
POLS 3025
A Century of Revolution

Readings
POLS 4030
Classical Political Theory

Readings
POLS 4090
Classical Marxist Theory
  Readings
Recommended Bibliography
POLS 6030 / SPT 6101
Theory and Practice
of the State in Historical Perspective
(Not taught in 2017/18)

Readings
Recommended Bibliography
Main Politics Website
POLS 4090 3.0A (W)
Classical Marxist Theory

Readings:

Overview and Early Writings:

From: Karl Marx: Man and Fighter

G.C. Comninel "Marx's Context"

G.C. Comninel "Marx and the Politics of the First International

F. Engels "Karl Marx"

Marx's Political Writings:

Manifesto of the Communist Party

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Class Struggles in France

The Civil War in France

Interview with Marx, 1871

Hague Congress Reports and Documents

"Political Indifferentism"

Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy

Critique of the Gotha Programme

Circular Letter to Bebel, Liebknecht, Bracke and Others

Marx's Critique of Political Economy:

Value, Price and Profit

Grundrisse

Capital
(Vol. I)

"Labour Rent" (Section II of Ch. 47, Vol III of Capital)

Ellen Wood - Historical Materialism in 'Forms which Precede Capitalist Production'

V.I. Lenin:

What Is To Be Done

Rosa Luxemburg:

"Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy"