Week 6. Socialism: The Challenge to Individualism and Capitalism in the Name of a Cooperative
and Solidary Humanity: (1) An Overview of Socialism: Foe, Conscience, or Culmination of
Liberalism? (2) Marx’s Socialism.
Andrew Heywood, “Socialism,” Political Ideologies, pp. 99-140
Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, “The Socialism of Karl Marx,” Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal (Pearson, 2009): 132-147
So you'd like to see a 21st-century socialist outlook on the world...
Check out Jacobin magazine or Le monde diplomatique (English edition.)
So you'd like to see 21st-century Marxist socialist outlooks...
Check out The Socialist Standard (non-Leninist Marxism), The Socialist Worker (Trotskyist), or a lecture by Alex Callinicos on the history of Trotskyism/International Socialism
So you'd like to see a 21st-century Christian socialist outlook...
Check out the principles of the Catholic Worker Movement, or watch Cornel West speaking on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers
So you'd like to see a documentary on Marx's life and ideas...
Check out "Karl Marx and Marxism," with Stuart Hall (1983)
So you'd like to learn about black Marxism...
Check out Michael C. Dawson, "Black and Red: Black Marxism and Black Liberation," Black Visions, pp. 172-237
Biopic of Rosa Luxemburg, leading Belle Epoque Marxist thinker and politician
"Rosa Luxemburg," dir. Margarethe von Trotta (1986)