Course,+Communist+University+2005


 * Johannesburg Central's Communist University: 2005 Draft Programme.***


 * **Date** || **Title** || **Author** || **Opening** ||
 * //Jan28// || //Communist Manifesto (1848)// || //Marx, Engels// || //Solly Mapaila// ||
 * "Development" or Class Struggle? ||
 * Feb 4 || Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970) (C1-3); Use Your Head (1982) || Freire, Buzan. || Dominic Tweedie ||
 * 11 || Peasants’ Revolt: Chiefs in the Saddle (1964) || Mbeki || Sibusiso Mchunu ||
 * 18 || African Socialism Revisited (1967) || Nkrumah || Nathaniel Komano ||
 * 25 || The Tax in Kind (1921) || Lenin || Theresa Giorza ||
 * Mar 4 || **Attend RLS Seminar** [//+Planet of Slums (2004)//] || Davis || //Reading only// ||
 * 11 || State & Market (2004); Poujadisme (1954) || Moore, Foster || Makhi Ndabeni ||
 * //Apr 1// || //SACP and Elections, Social Forum at SATAWU// || //SACP// || //Panel// ||
 * **Elements of Socialism: Class Struggle under the Bourgeois State** ||
 * 8 || The NDR & the Proletariat (1988); DOP (French Party Congress, 1977) || Slovo; Althusser || Dominic Tweedie ||
 * 15 || Report from 3rd Alex La Guma Brigade visit to Cuba. || FOCUS || Hope Papo ||
 * 22 || 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852) || Marx || Maxwell Zalisile ||
 * 29 || Address to Com. League (1850); Bourgeois Democracy & DOP (1919) || Marx, Lenin || Zico Tamela ||
 * May 6 || Twelve Years (1907) || Lenin || Makhi Ndabeni ||
 * 13 || Stalinism and Bolshevism (1937) || Trotsky || Phem. Kebinelang ||
 * //20// || //China's leap into the heart of the twenty-first century// || //Sachs// || //Michael Sachs// ||
 * Political Economy: Surplus Value ||
 * 27 || Capital V1, C1, Secs. 1, 2, & 4; Value, Price & Profit Secs. VI – X || Marx || Dominic Tweedie ||
 * Jun 3 || Capital Vol. 1, C6, Buying and Selling of Labour Power (1867) || Marx || Vhush. Ramatsitsi ||
 * 10 || Capital Vol. 1, C7, Process of Producing Surplus Value (1867) || Marx || Zico Tamela ||
 * 24 || Capital Vol. 1, C8, Constant & Variable Capital (1867) || Marx || Patrick Craven ||
 * Jul 1 || Capital Vol. 1, C9, The Rate of Surplus-Value (1867) || Marx || Nokw. Ntamnani ||
 * 8 || C11, 12, & 16, Relative Surplus-Value (1867); Tweedie v. Orr (2004) || Marx || Solly Mapaila ||
 * **Sharpening the Weapon of Philosophy** ||
 * 15 || Dialectics (1878) ; Theory of Action (Dialectical Materialism, 1976) || Engels, Dialego || Skhu. Thomo ||
 * 22 || Idealism & Materialism (German Ideology, 1845); Apriorism (1877) || Marx, Engels || Makhi Ndabeni ||
 * //29// || //FOCUS Cuba Solidarity event – the Battle of Ideas// || //FOCUS// || //Reuben Ramos// ||
 * //Aug 5// || //The Paris Commune (3rd Address)// || //Marx// || //Report Back// ||
 * 12 || Ludwig Feuerbach, 1 & 2, Hegel, Materialism (1886) || Engels || Miles Maisela ||
 * 19 || Ludwig Feuerbach, 4, Marx (1886); Theory of Knowledge (1976) || Engels, Dialego || Xola Ngonini ||
 * 26 || Freedom & Necessity (Anti-Duhring, 1877) || Engels || Mandla Radebe ||
 * Sep 2 || Quantity & Quality & Negation of Negation (Anti-Duhring, 1877) || Engels || Eddie, Nathaniel ||
 * //9// || //Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875)// || //Marx// || //Zico Tamela// ||
 * //16// || //Neo-liberalism, reformism, populism & ultra-leftism (2005)// || //Jeremy Cronin// || //Report Back// ||
 * **Building Socialism the Lenin Way** ||
 * 23 || What is to be Done? (1902) || Lenin || P. Kebinelang ||
 * //30// || //The SACP & Transition to Democracy & Socialism// || //Vishwas Satgar// || //Report Back// ||
 * Oct 7 || Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905) || Lenin || Buti Manamela ||
 * 14 || April Theses (1917); State & Revolution, Chapter 1 (1917) || Lenin || Buti Manamela ||
 * 21 || State & Revolution, Chapters 2 & 3 (1917) || Lenin || Xola Ngonini ||
 * 28 || Left-Wing Communism, Infantile Disorder, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 (1920) || Lenin || Xola Ngonini ||
 * //Nov 4// || //The Politics of Organising// || //Langa Zita// || //Report Back// ||
 * **Revolutionary War and Peace** ||
 * 11 || Ancient Class Struggle (2000) || de Ste Croix || Dominic Tweedie ||
 * 18 || War (1827) || Clausewitz || Bethuel ||
 * 25 || History of the Communist League (1885) || Engels || Bigboy Kekana ||
 * Dec 2 || The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party (1939) || Mao || Trevor Konela ||
 * 9 || Peoples Democratic Dictatorship; Political and Military Forces || Mao, Le Duan || Sibusiso Mchunu ||


 * //* Texts and order may be changed by the study group.//**


 * Venue and Time****: Lekgotla Space, Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, 17h00 – 18h30.**


 * Openers** **should be on time to open the discussion for 10-15 minutes, reviewing the work and bringing out suitable talking points. The chairperson will encourage dialogue involving all participants. Please volunteer to open a discussion – all it requires is that you read the work and give your own brief account of it.**


 * //All are welcome//****//.//** **//Contact: Dominic Tweedie, e-mail hypercube@telkomsa.net or dominic.tweedie@gmail.com.//**