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Select Bibliography and Syllabus - SOCIALIST THEORY < DIALECTICAL MARXISM: The Writings of Bertell Ollman
NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS
V53.0140
Prof. B. Ollman
SOCIALIST THEORY
Reading List
Books with
one star are highly recommended. Books with two stars
are required reading and students are requested to buy them.
I.Christian
Socialism
**
1. Christ, Jesus, FOUR GOSPELS
2.
Eddy, George Sherwood, REVOLUTIONARY CHRISTIANITY
3.
Jarett B., MEDIEVAL SOCIALISM, n.e.
*
4. Kautsky, Karl, FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY
*
5. Tabb, W., CHURCHES IN STRUGGLE
6.
Morris, William, THE CHRISTIAN ORIGINS OF SOCIAL REVOLT
7.
Nitti, F.S., CATHOLIC SOCIALISM
8.
Rauschenbusch, W., THE SOCIAL PRINCIPLES OF JESUS
9.
Vedder, Henry C., SOCIALISM AND THE ETHICS OF JESUS
II.Utopian Socialism
*
1. Bellamy, Edward, LOOKING BACKWARD
2.
Bellamy, Edward, EQUALITY
3. Bray, J.F. A VOYAGE FROM UTOPIA, London
4.
Fourier, Charles THE UTOPIAN VISION
5.
Fourier, Charles, THE PASSIONS OF THE HUMAN SOUL
6.
Fourier, Charles, SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF FOURIER
7.
Zeldin, David, THE EDUCATIONAL IDEAS OF CHARLES FOURIER
8.
Wagner, Donald, SOCIAL REFORMERS: ADAM SMITH TO JOHN DEWEY
9.
Harrington, James, THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA
10.
Hertzler, J.O., THE HISTORY OF UTOPIAN THOUGHT
**
11. More, Thomas, UTOPIA
12.
Morris, William, A DREAM OF JOHN BALL
13.
Morris, William, NEWS FROM NOWHERE
14.
Mumford, Lewis, THE STORY OF UTOPIAS
15.
Nordhoff, Charles, THE COMMUNIST SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES
16. Owen, Robert, NEW MORAL
WORLD
17.
Owen, Robert, REVOLUTION IN THE MIND AND PRACTICE OF THE HUMAN RACE
18.
Owen Robert, A NEW VIEW OF SOCIETY
19.
Saint-Simon, Henri, SELECTED WRITINGS, ed. by F.M.H. Markham
20.
Saint-Simon, Henri, CHRISTIANITY
21.
Conde, M.M., THE FRENCH FAUST, HENRI de SAINT-SIMON
22.
Manuel, F.E., THE NEW WORLD OF HENRI SAINT-SIMON
23.
Skinner, F.S., WALDEN II
24.
Wells, H.G., A MODERN UTOPIA
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25. Manuel, F., THE PROPHETS OF PARIS
*
26. Lukes, S. and Arblaster, A., THE GOOD SOCIETY
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27. Fourier, Charles, DESIGN FOR UTOPIA
* 28.
Beecher, J. & Bienvenu R. eds. THE UTOPIAN VISION OF CHARLES FOURIER
*
29. Geoghegan, V., UTOPIANISM AND MARXISM
*
30. Albert, M., & Hahnel, R.., SOCIALISM TODAY AND TOMORROW
III.Theories of Marx
and Engels
1.
Marx, Karl, CAPITAL I
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2. Marx, Karl, "Wages, Price and Profit"
**
3. Marx, Karl "Communist Manifesto."
**
4. Marx, Karl GERMAN IDEOLOGY, Parts I and III
*
5. Marx, Karl "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"
6.
Marx, Karl "The Civil War in France"
7.
Marx, Karl, ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHIC MANUSCRIPTS OF 1844
*
8. Engels, Frederich, "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"
9.
Engels, Frederich, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"
**
(Many of these writings and selections from CAPITAL appear in the Marx-Engels
Reader, ed. by Robert Tucker).
IV. Post Marx Marxism
1.
Ash, William, MARXISM AND MORAL CONCEPTS
2.
Caudwell, Christopher, THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM
3.
Dunayavskaya, Raya, MARXISM AND FREEDOM
*
4. Freeman, H., TOWARD SOCIALISM IN AMERICA
*
5. Gross, B., FRIENDLY FASCISM
*
6. Huberman, L. & Sweezy, P., INTRODUCTION TO SOCIALISM
7.
Kautsky, Karl, FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY
8.
Lenin, V.I., STATE AND REVOLUTION
9.
Lenin, V.I., IMPERIALISM: THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM
10.
Luxenburg, Ross, THEORY OF CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
11.
MacPherson, C.B., THE POLITICAL THEORY OF POSSESIVE INDIVIDUALISM
*
12. Marcuse, Herbert, ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN
13.
Mao Tse Tung, QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO
14.
Plakhanov, G., THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONIST VIEW OF HISTORY IN SELECTED PHILOSOPHICAL
WORKS .
15.
Sorel, George, REFLECTIONS OF VIOLENCE
16.
Strachey, John, THE NATURE OF CAPITALIST CRISIS
*
17. Sweezy, Paul, THE THEORY OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT
18.
Tressell, Robert, THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPIST
19.
Trotsky, Leon, LITERATURE AND REVOLUTION
20.
Trotsky, Leon, THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED
21.
Williams, W.A., THE GREAT EVASION
**
22. Ollman, B., ALIENATION: MARX'S CONCEPTION OF MAN IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY
*
23. Ollman, B., SOCIAL AND SEXUAL REVOLUTION: ESSAYS ON MARX AND REICH
24.
Ollman, B., "CLASS STRUGGLE" (board game)
*
25. Ollman, B., WHAT IS MARXISM? A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
**
26. Ollman, B., HOW TO TAKE AN EXAM AND REMAKE THE WORLD
*27.
Ollman, B., ed., LEFT ACADEMY: MARXIST SCHOLARSHIP ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, I,
II, III
*
28. Ollman, B., ed., MARKET SOCIALISM: THE DEBATE AMONG SOCIALISTS
29.
Tabb, W.K., THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM: PERSPECTIVE FROM THE LEFT, 1990
*
30. Mandel, E., THE PLACE OF MARXISM IN HISTORY
**
31. Parenti, M., DEMOCRACY FOR A FEW
*
32. MONTHLY REVIEW (SUMMER 2005),
GENERAL:
1. Hook, Sidney, MARX AND THE MARXISTS
2. Mills, C.W. THE MARXISTS
3. Institute for Labor Education, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE U.S. ECONOMY?
V. Social Democracy
and Fabianism
*
1. Bernstein, Edward, EVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
2.
Blatchford, R., MARRIE ENGLAND
3.
Carpenter, Niles, GUILD SOCIALISM
4.
Cole, G.D.H., SELF-GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY
5.
Cole, G.D.H., FABIAN SOCIALISM
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6. Crossland, C.A.R., THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM
*
7. Crossman, R.H., NEW FABIAN ESSAYS
*
8. Durbin, E.F.M., THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
9. George, Henry, PROGRESS
AND POVERTY
10.
Jenkins, Roy, THE LABOUR CASE
11. Laski, Harold, AUTHORITY IN THE MODERN STATE
12. Laski, Harold, GRAMMAR
OF POLITICS
13. Lewis, W. Arthur, THE
PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC PLANNING
14. Pigou, A.C., SOCIAL VS.
CAPITALISM
15. Massta, Ramire de, AUTHORITY,
LIBERTY AND FUNCTION
16. Ruskin, John, JOY FOREVER
*
17. Shaw, G.B., (ed.), FABIAN ESSAYS IN SOCIALISM
*
18. Shaw, G.B.S., INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM
19. Socialist Union, 20th
CENTURY SOCIALISM
*
20. Tawney, R.H., EQUALITY
21. Tawney, R.H., RELIGIION
AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM
22. Tawney, R.H., THE ACQUISITIVE
SOCIETY
23. Thomas, Norman, AMERICA’S
WAY OUT
24. Veblen, Thersten, THEORY
OF THE LEISURE CLASS
25. Webb, Sidney and Beatrice,
THE DECAY OF CAPITALIST CIVILIZATION
26. Webb, Sidney and Beatrice,
THE PUBLIC ORGANIZATION OF THE LABOR MARKET
27. Webb, Sidney and Beatrice,
A CONSTITUTION FOR THE SOCIALIST
**
28. Harrington, M., SOCIALISM
VI.Anarchism
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1. Bakunin, Michael, GOD AND THE STATE
2.
Bakunin, Michael, MARXISM, FREEDOM AND THE STATE
*
3. Berkman, Alexander, THE A.B.C. OF ANARCHIST COMMUNISM
4.
Godwin, Wm., ENQUIRY CONCERNING POLITICAL JUSTICE
*
5. Goldman, Emma, ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS
6.
Kropotkin, P., THE CONQUEST OF BREAD
*
7. Kropotkin, P., MUTUAL AID: A FACTOR IN EVOLUTION
8.
Kropotkin, P., THE STATE: ITS HISTORIC ROLE
9.
Kropotkin, P., FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
10.
Malastasta, Enrice, ANARCHY
11.
Orwell, George, HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
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12. Plekhanov, G.V., ANARCHISM AND SOCIALISM
*
13. Proudhoun, P.J., WHAT IS PROPERTY?
14.
Read, Herbert, ANARCHY AND ORDER
15.
Read Herbert, POETRY AND ANARCHISM
*
16. Schatz, N.S., THE ESSENTIAL WORKS OR ANARCHISM
17.
Schuster, E.M., NATIVE AMERICAN ANARCHISM
18.
Stirner, Max, THE EGO AND HIS OWN
19.
Tolstoy, Leo, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU
20.
Tolstoy, Leo, THE SLAVERY OF OUR TIME
21.
Tolstoy, Leo, WHAT I BELIEVE, London
22.
Tucker, Benjamin, INSTEAD OF A BOOK
**
23. Woodcock, George, ANARCHISM
*
24. Thomas, P., KARL MARX AND THE ANARCHISTS
VII. General Works
1.
Bear, Max, HISTORY OF BRITISH SOCIALISM
*
2. Berki, R.N., SOCIALISM
3.
Cole, G.D.H., SOCIALIST THOUGHT I-V
4.
Ebenstein, Wm., MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
5.
Egbert, D.G., and Parsons, S., eds., SOCIALISM AND AMERICAN LIFE
*
6. Fried, A. and Sanders, R., SOCIALIST THOUGHT: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
7.
Gray, Alexander, THE SOCIALIST TRADITIONS: MOSES TO LENIN
8.
Hearnshaw, F.J.C., A SURVEY OF SOCIALISM
9.
Hillquit, Morris, HISTORY OF SOCIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
* 10.
Laidler, Harry, SOCIAL-ECONOMIC MOVEMENTS
11.
Landauer, Carl, EUROPEAN SOCIALISM (2 vols.)
12.
Lerner, W., A HISTORY OF SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM IN MODERN TIMES
*
13. Lichtheim, G.,THE ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM
14.
Rae, John, CONTEMPORARY SOCIALISM
15.
Russell, Bertrand, ROADS TO FREEDOM: SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM, AND SYNDICALISM
16.
Salvadori, M., MODERN SOCIALISM
*
17. Wilson, Edmund, TO THE FINLAND STATION
VIII.Criticisms
*
1. Bober, M.M., KARL MARX’S INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY
2.
Bohn-Bawerk, E.V., KARL MARX AND THE CLOSE OF HIS SYSTEM,
3.
Cachrain, V., SOCIALISM EXPOSED AND REFUTED
4. Guyet, Y., SOCIALISM FALLACIES
*
5 Hayek, F.A., THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
6.
Kalsen, Hans, THE POLTICAL THEORY OF BOLSHEVISM
*
7. Kristol, I., TWO CHEERS FOR CAPITALISM
8.
Laroy-Beaulieu, L., COLLECTIVISM
9.
Mallock, W., A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF SOCIALISM
10.
Schaeffle, A., THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
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11. Schumpeter, Joseph A., CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY
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12. Popper, Karl, THE OPEN SOCIETY
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www.dialecticalmarxism.com - The Web Site of Bertell Ollman.
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