<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div class="event_profile_title"><h3>Marxist Summer School</h3></div><div class="event_profile_information"><table id="Event Info" class="profileTable info_table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
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<tbody><tr><td class="label">Start Time:</td>
<td class="data"><div class="datawrap">Monday, May 24, 2010 at 6:30pm</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">End Time:</td>
<td class="data"><div class="datawrap">Monday, June 28, 2010 at 6:30pm</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="label">Location:</td>
<td class="data"><div class="datawrap">San Deigo State University, Storm
Hall 348</div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="UIProfileBox_Container"><div class="UIProfileBox_Box"><h3 class="UIProfileBox_Header clearfix"><span class="UIProfileBox_Title">Description</span></h3><div class="UIProfileBox_Content"><div class="description">MARXIST SUMMER
SCHOOL: The theoretical and historical foundations of the ISSE<br><br>The
International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) is the youth wing of
the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), the
international revolutionary socialist party founded by Leon Trotsky in
1938. Following the degeneration of the USSR under the Stalinist
bureaucracy Trotsky and the left opposition to Stalin established the
Fourth International to carry on the legacy of Marxism. The ISSE defends
the heritage of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, and it is incumbent
upon our membership to absorb the historical lessons of Marxism worked
out in decades of working class struggles.<br><br>Starting with the
Marxist philosophy of historical materialism, the ISSE summer school
will focus on instilling in our members a sophisticated grasp of the
Marxist method. We will explore topics such as the relationship between
Marxist thought and the natural sciences, the relationship between the
natural sciences and the social sciences and the relationship between
the material world and its reflection in human thought. The opening
philosophical discussion will set the framework for the rest of the
summer school.<br><br>We will continue to develop on these philosophical
themes, and use them to guide us through the remaining topics, opening
up the discussion to include the objective and subjective factors of
revolution, dialectic and formal logic and the consistent application of
the Marxist method against the backdrop of class pressures produced by
the ever-evolving global economic structure. Throughout the school, we
will be considering these philosophical ideas not for the joy of
abstract contemplation, but for the sake of working out and
strengthening our revolutionary perspective. The power of Marxism is
that it is true. Armed with the theoretical and historical perspective
of the Fourth International, the ISSE will be poised to take a leading
role in the international revolutionary struggles ahead.<br><br><br><br>READING
SCHEDULE<br><br><br><br>*Week 1* (Meeting May 24th): Historical
materialism<br><br>1) Marx, 1859 preface <br><a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm</a><br><br>2)
Marx and Engels *German Ideology: Chapter 1<br><a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm</a><br><br><br><br>*Week
2* (meet May 31st): Historical materialism (continued)<br><br>1) Lenin,
In Lieu of an introduction (from *Materialism and<br>Empirio-criticism<br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/intro.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/intro.htm</a><br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/intro.htm#v14pp72h-022" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/intro.htm#v14pp72h-022</a><br><br>2)
Engels, The part played by labor in the transition from ape to man<br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm</a><br><br><br><br>*Week
3 *(meet June 7th): The Leninist conception of the Party<br><br>1)
Lenin, What is to be done? <br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/index.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/index.htm</a><br><br><br><br>*Week
4 *(meet June 14th): Permanent Revolution<br><br>1)Trotsky, *Results
and Prospects* and *Permanent Revolution* <br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm</a><br><br>2)North,
A significant contribution to an understanding of permanent<br>revolution<br><a href="http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/perm-a19.shtml" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/perm-a19.shtml</a><br><br><br><br>*Week
5* (meet June 21st): The Fourth International<br><br>1) Trotsky, The
transitional program<br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/index.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/index.htm</a><br><br>2)Trotsky,
A petty bourgeois opposition in the SWP<br><a href="http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/idom/dm/09-pbopp.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://marxists.org/archive/trotsky/idom/dm/09-pbopp.htm</a><br><br><br><br>*Week
6 *(meet June 28th): Globalization<br><br>1)Globalization and the
International working class <br><a href="http://www.wsws.org/exhibits/slreply/index.htm" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.wsws.org/exhibits/slreply/index.htm</a><br><br>2)Marxist
internationalism vs. the perspective of radical protest<br>Part One:<br><a href="http://wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/cho1-f21.shtml" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/cho1-f21.shtml</a><br>Part
Two:<br><a href="http://wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/chos2-f23.shtml" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/chos2-f23.shtml</a><br>Part
Three:<br><a href="http://wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/chos-f25.shtml" onmousedown='UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "36c68", event);' rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/chos-f25.shtml</a></div></div></div></div><br><br>Kurt A. Wellman EFA- ISSE<br>
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http://www.educationforallcoalition.com/ <br>
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http://www.witches.meetup.com/1369/<br>
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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in periods of moral crisis maintain their neutrality" Dante</td></tr></table><br>