Marx, Marxism and Philosophy, Today — Readings for this coming Saturday, Oct. 13th

Arto Artin­ian will be lead­ing a dis­cus­sion this com­ing week­end (Oct. 13th, 2018) on Gram­sci and the war of positions.

The read­ings for this week­end are as follows:

1) “Ele­ments of Pol­i­tics” and “The Polit­i­cal Par­ty”, pg. 144–157 from The Prison Notebooks

2) “Polit­i­cal Strug­gle and Mil­i­tary War”: pg. 229–239 from The Prison Notebooks

This dis­cus­sion will include a reflec­tion on mil­i­tary the­o­ry and a dis­cus­sion of the “War Machines” chap­ter in “A Thou­sand Plateaus” by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guat­tari.