CTRRG

The Organizers of the CTRRG, having determined to embark on a full cadre-development program have pursued the following course of study:

Basics (Week One)

Overview of Marxism (Weeks 2-5)

Week 2

Week 3

  • Class Struggle, Domenico Losurdo

Week 4

  • Critique of the Gotha Program, Karl Marx
  • Program of the Parti Ouvrier, Marx and Guesde
  • Critique of the Erfurt Program, Engels

Supplemental Readings

  • Programme of the Emancipation of Labour, Plekhanov
  • A Draft of Our Party Program, Lenin

Organization-Building Block

  • The 18th Brumaire, Karl Marx
  • On Authority, Friedrich Engels
  • Combat Liberalism, Mao Zedong
  • Constructive Criticism, Gracie Lyons
  • Constructive Struggle, J. Katsfoter
  • The Dreyfus Affair, Rosa Luxemburg
  • Fanshen, William H. Hinton
  • How to be a Good Communist, Liu Shaoqi
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, V.I. Lenin
  • Reform or Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg
  • Short Course History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, J.V. Stalin
  • What is to be Done? V.I. Lenin

National Liberation Block

  • The Apocalypse of Settler-Colonialism, Gerald Horne
  • Assata, Assata Shakur
  • Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Blood of the Land, Rex Wexler
  • Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Chicano Liberation and Proletarian Revolution, the August 29th Movement
  • Decolonial Marxism, Walter Rodney
  • For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question, Harry Haywood
  • Hammer & Hoe, Robin D.G. Kelley
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
  • Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, V.I. Lenin
  • The Negro Nation, Harry Haywood
  • The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galleani
  • The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

Political Economy & Socialism Block

  • Blood in My Eye, George Jackson
  • Capital, Karl Marx
  • Class Struggle, Domenico Losurdo
  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism, J.V. Stalin
  • Foundations of Leninism, J.V. Stalin
  • The Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, Otto Kuusinen
  • Grundrisse, Karl Marx
  • On the Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels
  • Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels
  • Wage Labour & Capital/Value, Price, and Profit, Karl Marx

Party Building Block

  • The 18th Brumaire, Karl Marx
  • On Authority, Friedrich Engels
  • Combat Liberalism, Mao Zedong
  • Constructive Criticism, Gracie Lyons
  • Constructive Struggle, J. Katsfoter
  • The Dreyfus Affair, Rosa Luxemburg
  • Fanshen, William H. Hinton
  • How to be a Good Communist, Liu Shaoqi
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, V.I. Lenin
  • Reform or Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg
  • Short Course History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, J.V. Stalin
  • What is to be Done? V.I. Lenin

Sex Liberation Block

  • Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici
  • Lenin on the Women’s Question, Clara Zetkin
  • Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement, Anuradha Ghandy
  • The Straight Mind and other Essays, Monique Wittig

Selected Material from the Reading List

  • The 18th Brumaire, Karl Marx
  • The Apocalypse of Settler-Colonialism, Gerald Horne
  • On Authority, Friedrich Engels
  • Black Bolshevik, Harry Haywood
  • Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Blackshirts and Reds, Michael Parenti
  • Blood in My Eye, George Jackson
  • Blood of the Land, Rex Wexler
  • Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici
  • Capital, Karl Marx
  • Class Struggle, Domenico Losurdo
  • Chicano Liberation and Proletarian Revolution, the August 29th Movement
  • Combat Liberalism, Mao Zedong
  • Constructive Criticism, Gracie Lyons
  • Dialectical and Historical Materialism, J.V. Stalin
  • Fanshen, William H. Hinton
  • On Contradiction, Mao Zedong
  • The Dawning of the Apocalypse, Gerald Horne
  • The Dreyfus Affair, Rosa Luxemburg
  • For a Revolutionary Position on the Negro Question, Harry Haywood
  • Foundations of Leninism, J.V. Stalin
  • The Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, Otto Kuusinen
  • Grundrisse, Karl Marx
  • Hammer & Hoe, Robin D.G. Kelley
  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney
  • Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, V.I. Lenin
  • Negro Liberation, Harry Haywood
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, V.I. Lenin
  • Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano
  • The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, Friedrich Engels
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Friere
  • Reform or Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg
  • Short Course History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, J.V. Stalin
  • Socialism: Scientific and Utopian, Friedrich Engels
  • Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, Domenico Losurdo
  • The State and Revolution, V.I. Lenin
  • The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
  • What is to be Done? V.I. Lenin
  • The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon