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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS
G53.2140
Prof. B. Ollman
POLITICAL THEORY: COMMUNISM
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and Reading List
There are a great many books containing selections from the writings of Marx and Engels.
The most important of these for this course are as follows:
I. McLellan, D.
ed., The Thought of Karl Marx
II. Easton, L.,
and Guddat, K., eds., Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and
Society
III. Selsam, H.
and Martel, H., eds., Reader in Marxist Philosophy
IV. Marx/Engels:
Selected Works (International, 1 vol.)
These
works will be referred to as I, II, III, IV in what follows.
I
have also put one star in front of the works I consider particularly important
and two stars in front of those I consider essential, that is in the context
of this course.
I.
"SETTING THE PROBLEM: MARX'S AND OUR OWN"
A. Introductory Works
* Engels, F., Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
** Marx, K, and Engels, F. Communist Manifesto
Ollman, B., "What Is Marxism? A Bird's-Eye View" (pamphlet)
** Ollman, B., How to Take an Exam and Remake the World
Parenti, M., Democracy for a Few
Rius, Marx for Beginners
Tressell, R., The Ragged Troussered Philanthropist
B.
Biographies
Berlin, I., Karl Marx (the most literate)
McLellan, D., Karl Marx (the most scholarly)
Mehring, F., Karl Marx (the most passionate)
C.
General
* I, Part 1
* III, Part 1
Arnold, S., Marx's Radical Critique of Capitalist Society
* Avineri, S., The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx
Berman, M., Adventures in Marxism
Cameron, K., Marxism: The Science of Society
Carver, T., Marx and Engels: The Intellectual Relationship
Eagleton, T., Marx
Elster, J., An Introduction to Karl Marx
** Fischer, E., How to Read Karl Marx
Gurley, F.G., Challengers to Capitalism
Harrington, M., The Twilight of Capitalism
Heilbroner, R., Marxism: For and Against
Hodges, D., "Engels' Contribution to Marxism", Socialist
Register, 1985
Hook, S., Toward an Understanding of Karl Marx
Lichtheim, G., Marxism
** Mandel, E., The Place of Marxism in History
Ollman, B., and Vernoff,
E., eds., The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses,
vol. I
* Suchting, W., Marx
* Williams, W.A., The Great Evasion
Wilson, E., To the Finland Station
2.
"The Philosophical Underpinnings of Marx's Solution:
Materialism and Dialectics"
* Engels, F., Anti-Duhring
* Marx, K., "Critical Battle Against French Materialism", Holy
Family (II)
* Marx, K., "Theses on Feuerbach", (II, IV)
* Marx,
K., "Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy", Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts of 1844 (II)
* III, Parts 2-5
Althusser, L., For Marx
Ash, W., Marxism and Moral Concepts
Bhaskar, R., Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom
Dunayevskaya, R., Marxism and Freedom
Dupre, L., The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism
Gollobin, I., Dialectic Materialism
Gould, C., Marx's Social Ontology
Gramsci, A., The Prison Notebooks, Part 3
Hook, S., From Hegel to Marx
Hyppolite, J., Studies on Marx and Hegel
Ilyenkov, E.V., Dialectic Logic
Israel, J., The Language of Dialectics
Jordan, Z.A., The Evolution of Dialectical Materialism
Kleinbach, R.L., Marx via Process
Kolowski, L., Main Currents of Marxism, vol I
* Korsch, K., Marxism and Philosophy
* Kosik, K., Dialectics of the Concrete
** Lukacs, G., History and Class Consciousness, Chap 1
Mao Tse Tung, Four Essays on Philosophy
** Marcuse, H.,Reason and Revolution
Meikle, S., Essentialism in the Thought of Karl Marx
Mepham, J., and Reuben, D.-H., Issues in Marxist Philosophy,
vols. I-III
** Ollman,
B., Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society,
Part I and Appendixes I and II
** Ollman,
B., Dialectical Investigations, Chaps. 1 and 2
Rees, J., The
Algebra of Revolution: The Dialectic and the Classical Marxist Tradition
Popper, K., The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol.
II
Reuben, D.-H., Marxism and Materialism
Sayers, D., The Violence of Abstraction
Sohn-Rethel, A., Intellectual and Manual Labor: A Critique
of Epistemology
Timpanaro, S., On Materialism
Wood, A., Karl Marx
Zeleny, J., The Logic of Marx
3.
"Human Nature and Alienation: Where Science, Criticism,
and Vision Meet"
* Marx, K.,
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
* Marx, K., Capital, Part I, Section 4
* I, Part 2
* III, Part 7
Aptdeker, H., ed. Marxism and Alienation
Foster, J.B., Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
Fromm, E., Marx's Conception of Man, Introduction
** Geras, N., Marx and Human Nature
Heller, A., The Theory of Need in Marx
* Israel, J., Alienation from Marx to Modern Sociology
Kamenka, E., The Ethical Foundations of Marxism
* Lefebvre, H., Critique of Everyday Life
* Marcuse, H., One-Dimensional Man
** Meszaros, I., Marx's Theory of Alienation
** Ollman, B. Alienation, Chaps. 7-23, and 29
Ollman, B., Class
Struggle Is The Name of the Game: True Confessions of a Marxist Businessman
O'Malley, J., "History
and Man's Nature in Marx", in Marx's Socialism, ed. By S. Avineri
Peffer, R., Marxism and Ethics
* Petrovich, G. Marx in the Mid-20th Century, Part
2
* Plamenatz, J., Karl Marx's Philosophy of Man
Rubel, M., Rubel on Marx
Sayers, S., Is There a Marxist Theory of Human Nature?
Schacht, R., Alienation
Walliman, I., Estrangement
Walton, P., and Gamble, A., From Alienation to Surplus
Value
4.
"Poltical Economy of Capitalism: From Value and Accumulation
of Capital to Fetishism and Crisis"
** Marx,
K., "Wage Labor and Capitol", IV
** Marx, K., "Wages, Price and Profit", IV
* Marx, K., Grundrisse, ed. by D. McLellan
* Marx, K., Capital I, Parts 1-7
Althusser, L., Reading Capital
Arthur, C., The Dialectics of Labor
Bohm-Bawerk, L. von, Karl Marx and the Close of His System
Cleaver, H. Reading Capital Politically
Dobb, M., Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam
Smith
Dunayevskaya, R., Marxism and Freedom
Fine, B., Marx's Capitalism
Gottheil, F., Marx's Economic Predictions
Harrington, M., Socialism, Chapter 5
* Harvey, D., The Limits of Capital
Howard, M.C., and King, J.E., The Political Economy of
Marx
* Mandel, E., The Formation of Marx's Economic Thought
** Mandel, E., Introduction to Marx's Economics
Mandel, E., Late Capitalism
Mattick, P., Marx and Keynes
Meek, R.L., Studies in the Labor Theory of Value
Mepham, J. "The
Theory of Ideology in Capital", Radical Philosophy (Summer 1972)
** Ollman, B., Alienation, Chapters 24-28
Robinson, J., An Essay on Marxian Economics
Roosevelt, F., "Cambridge Economics as Commodity Fetishism",
The Review of
Radical Political Economics (Winter 1975)
Rosdolsky, R., The Making of Marx's Capital
* Rubel, M., Rubel on Marx, Chapters 3 and 4
* Rubin, I.I., Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Sekine, T., An Outline of the Dialectics of Capital
* Smith, T., The Logic of Marx's Capital
* Suchting, W., Marx, Part 3
** Sweezy, P., The Theory of Capitalist Development
Waton, P., and Gamble, A., From Alienation to Surplus
Value
5.
"Is Democracy Compatible with Class Dictatorship? State
and Politics in Modern Capitalism,
Capitalism and Class Societies"
* Engels, F., Origins of the Family, Private Property and the
State
Marx, K., Critique
of Hegel's Philosophy of the State, ed. by J. O'Malley (also introduced
by O'Malley)
*
I, Part 2
Althusser, L., "Ideology
and Ideological State Apparatuses", Lenin and Philosophy
Beirne, P., and Sharlet,
R., Pashukanis: Selected Writings on Marxism and Law
Blackburn, R., ed., Ideologies in the Social Sciences
Carnoy, M., The State and Political Theory
Corrigan, P., Capitalism, State Formation and Political
Theory
* Draper, H., Karl Marx Theory of Revolution, vols. I-IV
* Gilbert, A., Marx's Politics
* Gramsci, A., Prison Notebooks, Part 2
Habermas, J., Legitimation Problems in Late Capitalism
Hook, S., Toward an Understanding Of Karl Marx, Chapters
17-19
Hunt, R., The Political Ideas of Marx and Engels,
vols. I, II
Larrain, J., Marxism and Ideology
* Lefebvre, H., The Sociology of Marx
Lichtman, R., Marx's Theory of Ideology and Other Essays
* Lenin, V.L., State and Revolution
Mezsaros, I., The Power of Ideology
Miliband, R., The State in Capitalist Theory
** Miliband, R., Marxism and Politics
Miliband, R., Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary
Capitalism
** Milliband,
R., and Poulantzas, N., "The Problem of the Capitalist State", Ideology
and Social Science, ed. by R. Blackburn
Moore, S., The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
** Nimtz,
A.N., Marx and Engels, Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough
O'Connor, J., The Fiscal Crisis of The State
** Ollman, B., Alienation, Chapters 29-32
** Ollman, B., Dialectic Investigations Chaps. 3-5
Ollman, B., and Birnbaum,
J., eds. The US Constitution: 200 Years of Criticism
* Ollman,
B., "What is Political Science? What Should It Be?" New Political Science
(December 2000)
* Ollman,
B. "Why Does the Emperor Need the Yakuza? Prolegomenon to a Marxist Theory
of a Japanese State," New Left Review (Mar/Apr 2001)
* Parenti, M., Democracy for a Few
* Poulantzas, N., Political Power and Social Class
Renner, K., The Institution of Private Laws and Their
Social Function
Thomas, P., Karl Marx and the Anarchists
Thomas, P., Alien Politics
Wright, E.O., Class, Crisis, and the State
6.
"The History of Modern Capitalism, Capitalism
and Class Societies: The Dialectical Relationship
Between 'Base' and 'Superstructure'"
* Marx, K.,
"The 18th of Brumaire", IV
* Marx, K., "Civil War in France", IV
* Marx, K., "Class Struggle in France", IV
** Marx, K., Capital, Part 8
** Marx, K., and Engels, F., German Ideology, Parts 1 and
3
** II, Parts 6 and 7
Anderson, P., In
the Tracks of Historical Materialism
Aronowitz, S., The Crisis in Historical Materialism
Bober, M.M., Karl Marx's Interpretation of History
Bukharin, N., Historical Materialism
** Cohen, G.A., Marx's Theory of History: A Defense
Cole, G.D.H., The Meaning of Marxism
* Dobb, M., ed., The Transformation from Feudalism to Capitalism
Eagleton, T., Ideology
* Farraro,
J., Freedom and Determinism in History According to Marx and Engels
Fleischer. H., Marxism and History
Gandy, D.R., Marx and History
Giddens, A., A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
* Jakubowski,
R., Ideological Superstructures in the Materialist Conception of History
Korsch, K., Karl Marx
Labriola, A., Essays on the Materialist Conception of
History
** Lefebvre, H., Historical Materialism
MacPherson, C.B., The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
McLellan, D., Ideology
McMurty, J., The Structure of Marx's World View
Mehring, F., On Historical Materialism
Meszaros, I., The Power of Ideology
** Ollman,
B., "Marx's Use of 'Class'", Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on
Marx and Reich
** Ollman, B., Alienation, Chapters 29-32
** Ollman, B., Dialectical Investigations, Chapters 6-8
Plekhanov, H., The Role of The Individual in History
** Rader, M., Marx's Materialist Interpretation of History
Schmidt, A., History and Structure
Torrance, J., Ideology
* Wood, E., Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical
Materialism
7.
"Projecting the Socialist and Communist Future:
But Is True? And Is It Good?"
** Marx, K., "Critique of the Gotha Program", IV
* I, Part 2, Chapter 8
* Marx, K., Engels, F., and Lenin, V.L., On Communist Society
* Bottomore,
T.B., and Rubel, M., eds., Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology
and Social Philosophy, Part 5
Afanasyev, V., Socialism and Communism
Bebel, A., Society of the Future
Block, E., The Principle of Hope
* Draper,
H., Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat,
vol. III
Duncan, G., Marx and Mill, Chapter 5
* Ehrenberg,
J., The Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marx's Theory of Socialist Democracy
* Lenin, V.V., State and Revolution
* Mandel, E., Marxist Economic Theory, Chapters 15-18
* Meszaros, I., Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition
Moore, S., Marx on the Choice Between Socialism and Communism
Nove, A., The Economics of Feasible Socialism
** Ollman, B., Alienation, Chapters 7-17 and 33
** Ollman,
B., "Marx's Vision of Communism", Social and Sexual Revolution
** Ollman,
B., ed. and co-author, Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists
** Ollman,
B., "Why Dialectics? Why Now? Or How to Study the Communist Future Inside
the Capitalist Present", Science & Society (Fall 1998)
Stephen, J.D., The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Tucker, R., The Marxian Revolutionary Idea
* Van den
Berg, A., The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State
of Marxism
8.
"Revolution: Who? How? When? And With What?"
* I, Part 2, Chapters 5 and 7
* Padover, S., ed., Karl Marx on Revolution, Part I
Avineri, S., The Social and Political Thought of Karl
Marx, Chapter 5
Blackburn, R., "The Theory of Proletarian Revolution", New Left
Review (?, 1997)
Colletti, L., "Marx
and Engels and the Concept of Party," The Socialist Register,
1967
Eyerman, R., False Consciousness and Ideology in Marx's
Theory
Fromm, E., Escape from Freedom
Johnstone, M.,
"Marx and Engels and the Concept of Party", The Socialist Register,
1967
* Lenin, V.L., What Is To Be Done?
* Lukacs, G., History and Class Consciousness, Chapter 3
** Luxembourg, R., Reform or Revolution
* Marcuse,H., "Marx's Concept of Revolution", New Left Review
(July 1969)
Molyneux, J. Marx and the Party
** Ollman, B., Alienation, Chapters 17,29, and 33
** Ollman, B., Social and Sexual Revolution, Chapters 1,6
and 7
** Ollman, B., Dialectical Investigations, Chapter 9
Reich, W., "What is 'Class Consciousness'?" Sex-Pol,
ed. by L. Baxendall
Reich, W., Mass Psychology of Fascism
Rosen, M., On Voluntary Servitude
* Sherover, Marcuse, E., Emancipation and Consciousness
Wolpe, H., "The Problem
of the Development of Revolutionary Consciousness", Telos (Fall,
1969)
For a wide range of materials on many of the topics touched on above, see:
www.dialecticalmarxism.com - The Web Site of Bertell Ollman.
Photocopies of a variety of articles will also be provided during the course
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