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==Introduction to the dialectical and materialist concept of history==

===Introduction===
* Marxism between past and future
* On materialist dialectics 
* The problem of “historical materialism”


=== 1.Dialectics : from Hegel to living Marxism === 

* a.Hegel : dialectics and history
* b.Engels and Marx, critics of Hegelian dialectics of history 
* c.Marxist traditions 
** i.“Diamat”
** ii.Negative dialectics

===2.Some problems of “historical materialism”===
* a.The Introduction to A Contribution to the critique of political economy
* b.The material basis : nature and economy
* c.Social classes and the complexity of social formations
** i.Class struggle
** ii.Gender
** iii.On “Races” and nationalities
* d.The State and Power
** i.About State Power
**ii.Micro- power 
* e.Ideology
**i. “Conscience as a reflection” and “utopian conscience”
**ii.Capitalism as seduction

In order not to conclude

==Readings==

- A few fragments from Hegel on the importance of method

- Excerpt from Karl Marx, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) – in Marx and Engels Selected Works, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969

- [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_10_27.htm Excerpt from Engels to C. Schmidt (October 27, 1890)]in Marx and Engels Selected Works, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1970

- Excerpt from Friedrich Engels, 'The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man' – in Engels, Dialectics of Nature, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954

- [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=621François Iselin, 'Another world is not possible without another mode of production' (IVP no.334, Oct. 2001): within the Ecology debate article]

- Excerpt from Fréderique Vinteuil, 'Marxism and feminism' (translated from Critique Communiste, spécial Marx, 1983)

- Excerpts from Michel Foucault, 'On power' (1976) — translated from Foucault, Dits et écrits 1954-1988, Paris: Gallimard, 1994

- Francisco Louça, 'Tides of change: culture in historical perspective' (IVP no. 322, June 2000)