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welcome to the resource page for capitalism bad, a reading group
meetings are saturdays at 6pm cst
zoom link here, password same as always
reading schedule and links:
meeting 1 - aug 1
Socialism: Utopian & Scientific
by Friedrich Engels, 1880
chapters 1-3 (skipping introduction but it is summarized in the outline)
pdf audio outline relevant video
meeting 2 - aug 8
Value, Price, and Profit
by Karl Marx, 1865
sections 1-7
pdf audio outline relevant video
meeting 3 - aug 16
Value, Price, and Profit
by Karl Marx, 1865
sections 8-14
pdf audio outline relevant video
meeting 4 - aug 22
Marxism and the USA
by Alan Woods, 2009
introduction & chapter 1
meeting 5 - sept 5
Marxism and the USA
by Alan Woods, 2009
chapters 2 & 3
AND How to Think Like a Vietnamese
Communist: An Intro to Dialectical
Materialism!
by Luna oi!
video
meeting 6 - sept 12
"Poetry after the Future"
essay by Christian Sorace (2020)
featuring contemporary Chinese
poetry
article
AND Justice (Part 1)
by ContraPoints
video
texts we might read from next:
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Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
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Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
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History and Class Consciousness by György Lukács
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable
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Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
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24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
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Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici
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Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
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