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Session 1: Class and class struggle
Communist Manifesto: I Bourgeois and Proletarians
Session 2: Workers and Marxists
Communist Manifesto: II Proletarians and Communists
Session 3: Critique of other socialisms
Communist Manifesto: III: Socialist and Communist Literature
Session 4: Class and revolution
Communist Manifesto: IV: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties
Session 5: Controversies and relevance
Reading for session 5:
Leon Trotsky, Ninety Years Of The Communist Manifesto, New International, 1938
online at https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/10/90manifesto.htm
Sean Matgamna, The Communist Manifesto after Stalinism, Workers' Liberty 44
online at https://workersliberty.org/story/2018-05-21/communist-manifesto-and-russian-revolution
Reading the Communist Manifesto:
Use the Engels/ Moore 1888 authorised English translation of the Communist Manifesto. It is widely available in print (used for almost all English editions) and on the Marxist Internet Archive
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
This is based on a five-session Zoom study course, Mondays 7pm from 30 January 2023 to 27 February 2023
Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zoom-study-group-the-communist-manifesto-tickets-492745995537