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NY News and Letters invites you to a series of seven classes onALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISMBeginning Sunday, March 21, 2004, from 7:00 to 9:15 p.m. Continuing every other Sunday *********************************************************** * Special speaker March 21: Peter Hudis, * National Co-Organizer of News and Letters Committees *********************************************************** 39 West 14th Street, Rm. 205 (ring bell #3, Identity House), Manhattan Free admission; free and open discussion. Most readings can be purchased from us. Call (212) 663-3631 for more information, or e-mail nandl @ igc.org and ask about New York classes. You can visit our website at www.newsandletters.org ****************************************************************************** ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM Class 1: Capital, Alienation, and Humanism We begin with Marx's "Private Property and Communism" (which is the foundation of his critique of Proudhon) and "The Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic" from his 1844 Manuscripts. The reading from John Alan's "Dialectics of Black Freedom Struggles" spells out Marx's critique of the socialist "alternatives" of his day in terms of the crucial distinction that Marx made between political and human emancipation. Readings: * Marx: "Private Property & Communism" and "Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic" in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 *Raya Dunayevskaya, Philosophy and Revolution, chapter 2, section 1 (pp. 47-60) * John Alan, "Dialectics of Black Freedom Struggles" (pp. 67-71) |
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