Workers International League-NYC
The Workers International League is an organization born in the internet age, and is excited by every new technology. However, the internet can only play the limited role of helping us proliferate in an age of increased dependence on the virtual. Comrades meet face-to-face weekly. If you are serious about struggling for the socialist transformation of society, meet us. If you are in NYC and would like to attend one of our meetings email us. If you are elsewhere please use the contact us page on the Socialist Appeal website.
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Suggested Reading List on Historical Materialism
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels
The German Ideology, Marx and Engels
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Engels
The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Man to Ape, Engels
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism, Lenin
The History of the Russian Revolution, Trotsky
The Civil War in France, Marx
The Peasant War in Germany, Engels
The Eigteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx
The Holy Family, Marx
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Engels
The Poverty of Philosophy, Marx
The Development of the Monist View of History, Plekhanov
The Foundations of Christianity, Kautsky
On Marx and Engels, Lenin
Preface and Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Marx
The critique of the Gotha Programme, Marx
In honor of our upcoming Engels Day tour of the Museum of Natural History, we’ve decided to post a reading list on the subject of Historical Materialism, the Marxist philosophy which will serve as the foundation of our analysis for this event.
All of the above texts can be found online on Marxists.org, any many can be physically purchased through http://www.marxistbooks.com or http://wellred.marxist.com/
Do you often dream of having communist friends? Then come hang out with us this Sunday, July 29th at 2:30 pm for our guided tour of the Museum of Natural History in NYC, while we discuss our favorite bourgie—Friedrich Engels’—work on the emergence of early class society and establish a solid introduction to the Youth for International Socialism.
Anyone interested in attending or learning more about the meet up should contact kk.marxist@gmail.com for further information.
The Eroica symphony
A decisive turning-point both in Beethoven’s life and in the evolution of western music was the composition of his third symphony (the Eroica). Up till now, the musical language of the first and second symphonies did not depart substantially from the sound world of Mozart and Haydn. But from the very first notes of the Eroica we enter an entirely different world. The music has a political sub-text, the origin of which is well known.
Beethoven was a musician, not a politician, and his knowledge of events in France was necessarily confused and incomplete, but his revolutionary instincts were unfailing and in the end always led him to the correct conclusions. He had heard reports of the rise of a young officer in the revolutionary army called Bonaparte. Like many others, he formed the impression that Napoleon was the continuer of the revolution and defender of the rights of man. He therefore planned to dedicate his new symphony to Bonaparte.
This was an error, but quite understandable. It was the same error that many people committed when they assumed that Stalin was the real heir of Lenin and the defender of the ideals of the October revolution. But slowly it became clear that his hero was departing from the ideals of the Revolution and consolidating a regime that aped some of the worst features of the old despotism.”
Alan Woods
Come join the WIL as we discuss the history of the French Revolution from a Marxist perspective.
This Bastille day, Saturday July 17th, 12:30pm at 60 Wall St.
RSVP kk.marxist@gmail.com
