Marxist / Communist / Theoretical Readings

In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. (Marx, German Ideology, 1845)

Start with one of these and explore randomly:

From “Intellectuals and Power”, a conversation between Foucault and Deleuze

Endnotes 1: Bring out your dead

Or select a reading from the entire list:

  1. Extracts from "Cracking the Shells: Adorno in the Present Day"
  2. Louis Althusser: On Marxism
  3. Endnotes 1: Bring out your dead
  4. From "Capitalism and Communism" by Gilles Dauvé
  5. Monsieur Dupont - Revolutionary Organisations and Individual Commitment
  6. Commodity: Fetish and Hieroglyph (Peter Osborne)
  7. Introduction to Communisation
  8. Eric Fromm: "Marx's Concept of Socialism"
  9. Postscript on the Societies of Control
  10. "Council Communism" by Neil Fettes
  11. "Definitions" from Internationale Situationiste #1
  12. From "Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium" by Deleuze and Guattari
  13. From "The Democratic Principle" by Amadeo Bordiga
  14. Passages relating to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  15. From "Marxism, Psychoanalysis, and Reality" by Erich Fromm
  16. From "Are We Good Enough?" by Peter Kropotkin
  17. Is Google Making Us Stupid? (From The Atlantic)
  18. Gramsci's "Preliminary Points of Reference" to "The Study of Philosophy"
  19. Marx on History
  20. From “Intellectuals and Power”, a conversation between Foucault and Deleuze
  21. Lenin: "Lessons of the [Paris] Commune", 1908
  22. Extracts from Amadeo Bordiga's Lyons Theses
  23. Williams and Srnicek: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics
  24. Marx: The Measure of Value (From the Contribution)
  25. Antonio Negri – Obama and the Illusions of Reform
  26. From "Orientalism" by Edward W. Said
  27. Benjamin Noys – "Accelerate the Process" from Malign Velocities
  28. From "Resignation" by Theodor Adorno
  29. "Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century?" by Slavoj Zizek
  30. "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire" from "Gender Trouble" (Judith Butler)
  31. "The Media Utopia of the Avant-Garde" by Franco Berardi
  32. Slavoj Žižek on Illusory Threats
  33. From "One Dimensional Woman" by Nina Power