2025-26 Schedule
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Meeting 1-2 (Sept-Oct): The Other of Industrialization
Historically, how have debates over the “rural” or “peasants” or “communes” proceeded? What are the main lines of thinking and their primary points of inflection? What political horizons and potential subjects does each period of debate envision?
Meeting 1
Preobrazhensky, The New Economics (selections)
Chayanov, The Theory of Peasant Economy (selections)
Meeting 2
Bartra, Los nuevos herederos de Zapata
Neel, Hinterlands
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Meeting 3-4 (Nov-Dec): Communal as the Underside of Theory
A survey of the attempts made from within anti-capitalist work to think, make visible, and frame the communal. What limits exist in this literature and what resources can be gained?
Meeting 3
Luxemburg, Manuscript of Political Economy class (selections)
Mariategui, “El problema de la tierra”
Graeber, "Turning Modes of Production Inside Out"
Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (Introduction)
Meeting 4
Rey. Alianza de clases (selections)
Rodney, “Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientific Socialism”
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Meeting 5-6 (Jan-Feb-March): From Contemporary Struggles
Instead of beginning from rifts, ontologies, “already existing” solutions or nature-cultures, what happens to our thinking of the comunal if we begin from contemporary struggles? How does militant experience point toward new thinkings of the comunal?
Meeting 5
Kristin Ross, The Commune Form
Baschet, The Zapatista Experience (last chapter)
Meeting 6
Soulevements de la terre, Saison 7
Nichols, Theft is Property!
Meeting 1-2 (Sept-Oct): The Other of Industrialization
Historically, how have debates over the “rural” or “peasants” or “communes” proceeded? What are the main lines of thinking and their primary points of inflection? What political horizons and potential subjects does each period of debate envision?
Meeting 1
Preobrazhensky, The New Economics (selections)
Chayanov, The Theory of Peasant Economy (selections)
Meeting 2
Bartra, Los nuevos herederos de Zapata
Neel, Hinterlands
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Meeting 3-4 (Nov-Dec): Communal as the Underside of Theory
A survey of the attempts made from within anti-capitalist work to think, make visible, and frame the communal. What limits exist in this literature and what resources can be gained?
Meeting 3
Luxemburg, Manuscript of Political Economy class (selections)
Mariategui, “El problema de la tierra”
Graeber, "Turning Modes of Production Inside Out"
Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (Introduction)
Meeting 4
Rey. Alianza de clases (selections)
Rodney, “Tanzanian Ujamaa and Scientific Socialism”
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Meeting 5-6 (Jan-Feb-March): From Contemporary Struggles
Instead of beginning from rifts, ontologies, “already existing” solutions or nature-cultures, what happens to our thinking of the comunal if we begin from contemporary struggles? How does militant experience point toward new thinkings of the comunal?
Meeting 5
Kristin Ross, The Commune Form
Baschet, The Zapatista Experience (last chapter)
Meeting 6
Soulevements de la terre, Saison 7
Nichols, Theft is Property!
