What is Marxism / Historical Materialism, Jean.

Readings

Marx and Engels, 1948. Communist Manifesto,

Part 1, “Bourgeois and proletarians”

Part 2, “Proletarians and communists”

Part 4, “Position of the communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties”

Marx, 1859: Preface to the “Critique of Political Economy

Engels, 1880. Socialism Utopian and Scientific, last part “Historical Materialism”

Lenin, 1913. The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Mandel, 1977. From Class Society to Communism, chapter 5, “The Capitalist Economy”