The next Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms (Sheffield). The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”. Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion.
Reading List:
Marxists.org page on Alienation
http://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/index.htm
Estranged Labour – Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm
Work and the Free Society – Anarchist Federation http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/work.html
From Man’s Alienation to Human Community – Internationalist Communist Group (Communism #6) http://libcom.org/library/from-mans-alienation-to-human-community-communism-6
An Anarchist Critique of Democracy http://www.againstallauthority.org/democracy.html (also available as audio here http://www.archive.org/details/AAnarchistCritiqueOfDemocracy )
Seeing sense in the age of stupid: Alienation, power and the case for social transformation – Solidarity Federation (Direct Action #47) http://www.direct-action.org.uk/docs/DA-SF-IWA-47.htm#33
Eugene Kamenka, The Ethical Foundations of Marxism: chapter 7, the Critique of Economics.
Capital Vol 1: the section on the fetishism of commodities http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4
Bertell Ollman, Alienation: part three, The theory of alienation.
Shlomo Avineri, The political and social theory of Marx: ‘Alienation and forms of property’
David McLellan, Selected Writings of Marx, chapter 8 and chapter 9
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/sheffield-communist-discussion-group-14th-april-alienation/
http://yorks-afed.org/2010/03/communist-discussion-group-alienation/
Marxists.org page on Alienation
http://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/index.htm Estranged Labour – Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm Work and the Free Society – Anarchist Federation
http://www.afed.org.uk/ace/work.html From Man’s Alienation to Human Community – Internationalist Communist Group (Communism #6)
http://libcom.org/library/from-mans-alienation-to-human-community-communism-6 An Anarchist Critique of Democracy
http://www.againstallauthority.org/democracy.html (also available as audio here http://www.archive.org/details/AAnarchistCritiqueOfDemocracy ) Seeing sense in the age of stupid: Alienation, power and the case for social transformation – Solidarity Federation (Direct Action #47)
http://www.direct-action.org.uk/docs/DA-SF-IWA-47.htm#33 Eugene Kamenka, The Ethical Foundations of Marxism: chapter 7, the Critique of Economics.
Capital Vol 1: the section on the fetishism of commodities
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4 Bertell Ollman, Alienation: part three, The theory of alienation.
Shlomo Avineri, The political and social theory of Marx: ‘Alienation and forms of property’
David McLellan, Selected Writings of Marx, chapter 8 and chapter 9
http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/sheffield-communist-discussion-group-14th-april-alienation/ http://yorks-afed.org/2010/03/communist-discussion-group-alienation/ 
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