This list is incomplete and will be updated over time. The school’s sessions will mostly not discuss the readings explicitly; they are meant to give background and context, to supplement the presentations at the school, and to prepare attendees for participating in discussion. We strongly encourage you to read as much of this material as possible before coming, but you will certainly be able to engage and participate at the school if you haven’t been able to read it all.
Marxism, Capitalism, and Historical Materialism
- Ernest Mandel – “An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory”
- Ellen Meiksins Wood – “The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism”
- Cynthia Kaufman – “Capitalism and Class”
- Stephanie Coontz – “Gender and the Communist Manifesto”
- Notes on Caliban and the Witch and Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
- Tithi Bhattacharya – “How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class”
Neoliberalism and the Current Period
- Chris Harman – “Theorising Neoliberalism”
- David McNally – “Global Slump and the New Normal”
- Joanna Misnik, ed. – “The Rainbow and the Democratic Party–New Politics or Old?: A Socialist Perspective”
Strategy and Social Movements
- Robert Brenner – “The Problem of Reformism”
- François Sabado – “Elements of Revolutionary Strategy”
Queer Politics, Queer Movements
- Cathy Cohen – “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens”
- John D’Emilio – “Capitalism and Gay Identity”
- Peter Drucker – “Gay Normality and Queer Transformation”
- Shanice Octavia McBean – “‘I Was Born a Baby, Not a Boy’: Sex, Gender, and Trans Liberation”
- Alan Sears – “Queer Anti-Capitalism: What’s Left of Lesbian and Gay Liberation?”
Labor and Austerity
- Kim Moody – “The Rank and File Strategy”
- Kim Moody and Charlie Post – “The Politics of U.S. Labor: Paralysis and Possibilities”
Gendered Violence
- Harsha Walia – “Challenging Patriarchy in Political Organizations”
- International Strategy Center- “Challenging Patriarchy in our Movements”
White Supremacy, National Oppression, and National Liberation
- Kali Akuno – “Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era”
- Bill Fletcher, Jr. – “Race, the National Question, Empire, and Socialist Strategy in the USA”
Revolutionary Organization and the State of the Left
- Kit Wainer and Charlie Post – “Socialist Organization Today” (abridged)
- David McNally – “Socialism from Below”
- Alan Sears – “The End of 20th Century Socialism?”
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization – “Which Way Is Left?”
- Solidarity – “Regroupment and Refoundation of a U.S. Left”
The Next Left
- Left Roots – “Toward a Transformational Strategy”
- Marta Harnecker – Rebuilding the Left chapters 1-10
- Steve Williams and N’Tanya Lee – “No Shortcuts”
Additional Readings (not attached to specific sessions but which might provide useful context)
- Daniel Tanuro – “Confronted by the Ecological Emergency: Project of Society, Programme, Strategy”
- Michael Löwy – “What is Ecosocialism?”
- Johanna Brenner and Nancy Holmstrom – “Socialist-Feminist Strategy Today”
- Pierre Rousset – “Capitalist Globalization, Imperialisms, Geopolitical Chaos, and Their Implications”
- David Finkel – “Brief Notes on Imperialism and Middle East Meltdown”
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