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September 7 2023: Introduction to series
Speakers: Ian Spencer and Nick Wrack
September 14: Marx, Engels and the party question: from the Communist League to the First International
Speaker: Kevin Bean
Recommended readings:
- Marx joins the First International: https://www.marxists.org/
archive/marx/works/1864/ letters/64_11_04-abs.htm - Inaugural Address: https://www.marxists.org/
archive/marx/works/1864/10/27. htm - Provisional Rules: https://www.marxists.org/
history/international/iwma/ documents/1864/rules.htm - Instructions to delegates to the Geneva Congress 1866: https://www.marxists.org/
history/international/iwma/ documents/1866/instructions. htm - Letter from Karl Marx to Ferdinand Freiligrath in London
- Address of the International Working Men’s Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
September 21: Debating party and programme: Marx and Engels versus Bakunin and the anarchists 1868-72
Speaker: Ian Spencer
Recommended reading:
- Frederick Engels: The Bakuninists at Work
- Michael Bakunin: Marxism, Freedom and the State
September 28: Developing a Social Democratic party and programme: Eisenachers, Lassallians and Erfurt 1864-1875
Speakers tbc
October 5: Developing revolutionary socialist consciousness: the programme of the French Workers Party and the origins of the Second International
Speakers tbc
October 12: Party and programme in Britain: Marx and Engels and the Labour movement in Britain 1844-1895
Speakers tbc
October 19: German social democracy, the minimum-maximum programme and the fusion formula: Engels and Erfurt
Speakers tbc
October 26: Party life and discipline: ‘democratic centralism’ in the SPD 1870s-1890s
Speakers tbc
November 2: Marx and Engels and the Russian Marxists 1840-1890s
Speaker: Ian Spencer
November 9: Party, programme and trade union struggles; politics, mass struggles and strikes; Marxism and ‘syndicalism’ 1840s-1890s
Speakers: Ian Spencer
November 16: Conclusion and discussion of themes
Speakers tbc
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