Revolution in the Age of Electronics
This is an overview of a school done in Chicago in August, 2001 on "Revolution in the Age of Electronics." Most of the readings are listed below, the missing readings will be added eventually.
Readings
General background reading
Science, law systems and doctrine
Philosophy and the Leap
Class, ideology, revolution
Organization
General background
Friedrich Engels, Introduction to Marx's "The Civil War in France." pp 158-171 in The Marxist Reader or on the Internet at: http://www.marx2mao.org/M&E/CWF71.html#Intro (If you use the Internet version, you can start on page 3, paragraph 3, "Thanks to...")
Gerald Horne, Fire This Time -- The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. (Da Capo Press, New York, 1997.) At least read Chapter 1, the whole book if possible.
Friedrich Engels, Introduction to Marx's The Class Struggles in France (1848-50) pp. 71-94 in The Marxist Reader or on the Internet at: http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850-csf/intro.htm
Also recommended: E. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution -- 1789-1848, Chapter 3, "The French Revolution." (Mentor Books, New York. 1962.)
And anything else that gets you "in mode"!
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Science, law systems and doctrine
Definitions and assignments handout
Philosophy Handbook Introduction (Draft) (ISSS document)
Path to Power. 1984. Workers Press. pp 20 – 22
Stalin. 1953. "Character of economic laws under socialism", from Economic Problems of Socialism in the Soviet Union
Diamond, Jared. 1999. "Farmer Power" (Chapter 4) from Guns Germs and Steel.
WW Norton.
Marx, Karl. "Exchange" (Chapter II - just the first three pages) from Capital, Vol. I
Odom, William O. 1999. After the Trenches: The transformation of U.S. Army doctrine, 1918- 1939. Texas A&M University Press. pp 3 - 7.
Doctrine (Draft) (ISSS discussion paper)
The world communist movement (January, 2000) (Notes from Institute discussion)
Excerpt from "How and Why Things Change" (Institute resource paper). Eight paragraph section that starts with "The shift from reform to revolution".
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Philosophy and the Leap
Part I
Part II The leap and the nature of revolution in this epoch
The leap and the nature of revolution in this epoch (class overview, reading
Two excerpts from Engels, Anti-Duhring
Engels, Introduction to "The Class Struggles in France" (1895)
Several excerpts from Gerald Horne, Fire This Time
Excerpt from Entering an Epoch of Social Revolution
Excerpt from "Dialectics of the Leap"
One or two short, current readings
Supplementary/optional (for reference for question #2):
Engels, Introduction to Marx’s "The Civil War in France"
(Other readings will be forthcoming)
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Class, ideology, revolution
(Readings will be forthcoming)
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Organization
Readings on the First International
The World Communist Movement (Institute discussion paper)
Whither the World Communist Movement (Institute discussion paper)
The Mission of the League and the Tasks of the Press (internal PT/TP Editorial Board discussion paper)
Marxism as the Scientific Current Within Communism (Institute resource paper)
Excerpt from "Political Report to the NCPI", November 1999
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