Standard Curriculum (Articles) Unit 1: Philosophy and Political Economy January • Karl Marx: A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism (Lenin) • Anti-D ü hring: Chapters 12 & 13 (Engels; 27p; Read beforehand ) February • Wage Labour and Capital (Marx; 2 sessions) March • Value, Price and Profit (Marx; 2 sessions) Unit 2: Scientific Socialism April • The Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels) • Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx) May • Approaching Marxism: Class (Prolekult) • The State: A Lecture Given at the Sverdlov University (Lenin) June • Approaching Marxism: Modes of Production (Prolekult) • Approaching Marxism: The Metabolic Rift (Prolekult) Unit 3: The Second Internationale and The Party of a New Type July • Marxism and Revisionism (Lenin) • Opportunism and the Collapse of the Second Internationale (Lenin) August • Imperialism and the Split in Socialism (Lenin) • The Platform of the Reformists and the Platform of the Revolutionary Social-Democrats (Lenin) September • Marxism and Insurrection (Lenin) • Octubre: lo viejo y el nuevo (MAI, 2007) [October: the old and the new] Unit 4: Revisionism and the Crisis of Communism October • On Khruschev's Phony Communism (Mao) • The Modern Revisionists on the Way to Degenerating Into Social-Democrats and to Fusing with Social-Democracy (Hoxha) November • Destruction of the Soviet Union (Lockwood, David. 2000. Chapter 7: The Collapse) • After Gorbachev’s USSR (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1j-vEqIClw December • Fuck the EU! No to Imperialist War! (CxR 2025. 2 sessions)