UCLU Marxists Weekly Reading Group
discussing mainly classic Marxist materials and some modern readings to further the education of comrades
meetings held on Wednesdays at 16:00 in Phineas Bar @ UCL - come along, no reading necessary!
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/392952084109942/
meetings held on Wednesdays at 16:00 in Phineas Bar @ UCL - come along, no reading necessary!
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/392952084109942/
Current Information
5 December 2013
For the next reading week, I suggest that anyone can bring something they came across in the news that they like to discuss. Just to make things relevant to today. Doesn't have to be directly related to the topic discussion.
Here are two to get you started:
http://gu.com/p/3yx5z/tw and http://gu.com/p/3yxmj/tw
With the second one think about the definition Lenin gives it i.e. police as tool of oppression of proletariat by bourgeois state and police as a "political" agent defending the bourgeois state and therefore the bourgeoisie.
For the next reading week, I suggest that anyone can bring something they came across in the news that they like to discuss. Just to make things relevant to today. Doesn't have to be directly related to the topic discussion.
Here are two to get you started:
http://gu.com/p/3yx5z/tw and http://gu.com/p/3yxmj/tw
With the second one think about the definition Lenin gives it i.e. police as tool of oppression of proletariat by bourgeois state and police as a "political" agent defending the bourgeois state and therefore the bourgeoisie.
5 December 2013
Yesterday we went through chapter 3 of the book State and Revolution. I have made notes for this chapter and made some changes that members of reading brought to my attention. I included some definitions because sometimes some Marxist words are used without an explanation of what it means or who it refers to.
Yesterday we went through chapter 3 of the book State and Revolution. I have made notes for this chapter and made some changes that members of reading brought to my attention. I included some definitions because sometimes some Marxist words are used without an explanation of what it means or who it refers to.
State and Revolution Ch 3 | |
File Size: | 60 kb |
File Type: | doc |
1 December 2013
Here is a copy of the summary of first two chapters of the book State and Revolution by Lenin that we are currently reading through. I will post the other chapters as we go along. I have written this mainly for those who have not had previous exposure to Marxist thought.
Here is a copy of the summary of first two chapters of the book State and Revolution by Lenin that we are currently reading through. I will post the other chapters as we go along. I have written this mainly for those who have not had previous exposure to Marxist thought.
State and Revolution Ch 1-2 | |
File Size: | 23 kb |
File Type: | docx |