Platypus at UC San Diego

The Left is Dead! Long Live the Left! Come join our discussions on the history of the Left, current events and politics, and the possibilities of emanipatory politics today. Every week, we host a reading group working through the crucial texts in the history of Marxism Wednesdays, 6PM @ Groundwork Books.

Coffee Breaks

Thursdays 5PM @ MOM cafe

Come join our informal discussions over coffee. Previous topics included: Israel and Palestine, Trump: Political Prisoner?, Art in History, Free Speech, and Immigration and Imperialism.

Primary Reading Group

Wednesdays 6PM @ Groundwork Books, syllabus

Oct 5	Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. The Third Estate
Oct 12	Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Bourgeois society
Oct 19	Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Freedom in history
Oct 26	What is the Left? I. Captial in history
Nov 2	What is the Left? II. Utopia and critique
Nov 9	What is Marxism? I. Socialism
Nov 16	What is Marxism? II. Revolution in 1848
Nov 30	What is Marxism? III. Bonapartism
Dec 6	What is Marxism? IV. Critique of political economy
Break	Supplementary readings
Jan 11	What is Marxism? V. Reification
Jan 17	What is Marxism? VI. Class consciousness
Jan 24	What is Marxism? VII. Ends of philosophy
Jan 31	Revolutionary Leadership
Feb 7	Reform or Revolution?
Feb 14	Lenin and the Vanguard Party
Feb 21	What is to be Done?
Feb 28	Mass strike and social democracy
Mar 6	Permanent revolution
Mar 13	State and revolution
Apr 3	Imperialism
Apr 10	Failure of the revolution
Apr 17	Retreat after revolution
Apr 24	Dialectic of reification
May 1	Lessons of October
May 8	Trotskyism
May 15	The authoritarian state
May 22	On the concept of history
May 29	Reflections on Marxism
Jun 5	Theory and practice

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