Communist Discussion Group: Alienation - 14th April

The next Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms (Sheffield). The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”. Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion.

Reading List:

Marxists.org page on Alienation

http://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/index.htm

Estranged Labour – Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm

Work and the Free Society – Anarchist Federation

http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/work.html

From Man’s Alienation to Human Community – Internationalist Communist Group (Communism #6)

http://libcom.org/library/from-mans-alienation-to-human-community-communism-6

An Anarchist Critique of Democracy

http://www.againstallauthority.org/democracy.html (also available as audio here

http://www.archive.org/details/AAnarchistCritiqueOfDemocracy )

Seeing sense in the age of stupid: Alienation, power and the case for social transformation – Solidarity Federation (Direct Action #47)

http://www.direct-action.org.uk/docs/DA-SF-IWA-47.htm#33

Eugene Kamenka, The Ethical Foundations of Marxism: chapter 7, the Critique of Economics.

Capital Vol 1: the section on the fetishism of commodities

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4

Bertell Ollman, Alienation: part three, The theory of alienation.

Shlomo Avineri, The political and social theory of Marx: ‘Alienation and forms of property’

David McLellan, Selected Writings of Marx, chapter 8 and chapter 9

http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/sheffield-communist-discussion-group-14th-april-alienation/

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Communist Discussion Group: Alienation - 14th April

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