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Course Protocol: Below I have provided a week-by-week schedule of readings and written assignments. Where possible, I have included links to electronic versions of the texts we will read. For each week's reading, I will provide an introduction and, where there are electronic texts, hypertext links with comments on the texts. Each week you will be expected to read the assigned texts and to respond with micro-essay "positions" (critiques, comments and/or discussion questions) on the course WebBoard by Thursday at 8:00 AM Central U. S. time. Subsequent responses to the initial positions can be posted throughout the week. I have provided some sample positions from a similar previous course for your examination. Overview of the Course Texts Required and Suggested Written Work and Evaluation

First Week: Micro-essay Position due Jan 25 Intro to 1st Week Readings: Historical Materialism Terry Eagleton, "Introduction (Part I)," (Marxist Literary Theory, 1-15) From The German Ideology, (Materialist Conception of History) Theses on Feuerbach The Communist Manifesto, Part I (Bourgeois and Proletarians)

Second Week: Micro-essay Position Due Feb 1 Intro to 2nd Week Readings: Base and Superstructure Drew Milne, "Introduction (Part II)," (Marxist Literary Theory, 16-30) Preface to A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy From The German Ideology, (Preface) From The German Ideology, (Civil Society and History) V. N. Volosinov, "Concerning the Relationship of the Basis and Superstructures" (Marxist Literary Theory, pp.60-68) Raymond Williams, from Marxism and Literature, pp. 11-44 Suggested Further Reading: Stuart Hall, "Rethinking the Base and Superstructure Metaphor." In J. Bloomfield, ed. Class, Hegemony and Party

Third Week: Micro-essay Position due Feb 8 Intro to 3rd Week Readings: Labor Power and Surplus Value From Value, Price and Profit (Address to International Working Men's Association) Capital, Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 1 (Commodities: Use-Value and Value) Capital, Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 2 (Labor Embodied in Commodities) Capital, Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 3 (Form of Exchange Value) Capital, Vol I, Ch. 1 Sec. 4 (Fetishism of Commodities) From Capital, Vol I, Ch. 6 (Labor-Power) From Capital, Vol I, Ch. 7 (Surplus Value)

Fourth Week: Micro-essay Position Due Feb 15 Intro to 4th Week Readings: Literature and Ideology From The German Ideology, "Idealism and Materialism" Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, London: Monthly Review Press, 1971), esp. pp. 127-48; 177-86 Synopsis of "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" Raymond Williams, "Literature" (Marxist Literary Theory, pp 261-70) Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey "On Literature as an Ideological Form" (Marxist Literary Theory, pp 275-295) Terry Eagleton, "Towards a Science of the Text," (Marxist Literary Theory, pp. 297-327)

Fifth Week: Micro-essay Position Due Feb 22 Intro to 5th Week Readings: Modernism/Postmodernism Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno from The Dialectic of Enlightenment Georg Lukacs, "The Ideology of Modernism" (Marxist Literary Theory, pp. 141-62) Fredric Jameson, "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism." From New Left Review 146 Synopsis of "Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" Alex Callinicos, "The Jargon of Postmodernity" (Marxist Literary Theory, pp.408-28) Suggested further reading: Levee Blanc, "The Antinomies of Melancholy" Curtis Bowman, "Odysseus and the Siren Call of Enlightenment" Stephen Bronner, "Dialectics at a Standstill" David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, Ch. 2-3) Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, "Postality: The (Dis)simulations of Cybercapitalism," from Postality: Marxism and Postmodernism

Sixth Week: Micro-essay Position Due March 1 Introductory Comments from Jerry Phillips Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Part I Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Part II Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Part III Suggested Further Reading: Hal Draper, The Two Souls of Socialism

Seventh Week: Micro-essay Position Due March 8 Marx & Engels, Critique of the Gotha Program Marx, Communist Manifesto, Part III Netforum Exchange with Jerry Phillips March 9-10 Other Readings, TBA

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Eighth Week: Micro-essay Position Due March 22 Introductory Comments from Barbara Foley Barbara Fields, "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America." New Left Review 1990: 95-118 Ted Allen, "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race," Part I Ted Allen, "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race," Part II Alexander Saxton, "Introduction" from The Rise and Fall of the White Republic Recommended Further Reading: Lerone Bennett, Before the Mayflower, ch. 1-4. Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party During the Depression (Chapel Hill: U of NC Press, 1990) B. Foley, "Roads Taken and Not Taken: Post-Marxism, Antiracism, and Anticommunism" Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression (New York: Grove, 1986)

Ninth Week: Micro-essay Position Due March 29 Gregory Meyerson, "Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Labor Competition" Cultural Logic, I, ii (www.eseerver/clogic) David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York: Verso, 1991) Cornel West, Race Matters Gregory Meyerson and Jonathan Scott, "An Interview with Theodore W. Allen" Cultural Logic, I, ii (www.eseerver/clogic) Recommended Further Readings: Omi and Winant, Racial Formation Balibar Sections in Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein, Race, Nation, Class and: Ambiguous Identities (London: Verso, 1991) (Netforum exchange with Barbara Foley March 29-30)  More Online Essays by Barbara Foley

Tenth Week: Micro-essay Position Due April 5: Intro to 10th and 11th Week Readings: Postmarxism Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, 1-92 Recommended Further Readings: Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution Interview with Laclau and Mouffe Web Resources on Gramsci

Eleventh Week: Micro-essay Position Due April 12: Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, 93-148

Twelfth Week: Micro-essay Position Due April 19 Intro to 12th & 13th Week Readings: Materialist Feminism Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, "Introduction: Reclaiming Anticapitalist Feminism," from Materialist Feminism: A Reader, 1-14 R. Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse, Chapter 1 Suggested Further Reading: Benston, "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation," Materialist Feminism, 15-23 Barbara Ehrenreich, "What is Socialist Feminism?", Materialist Feminism, 65-70 Martha Gimenez, "The Oppression of Women: A Structuralist Marxist View," Materialist Feminism, 71-82 Kuhn and Wolpe, "Feminism and Materialism," Materialist Feminism, 83-87 Barrett, "Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender," Materialist Feminism, 88-94 Carol Stabile, "Feminism and the Ends of Postmodernism," Materialist Feminism, 395-408 Also of interest: R. Hennessy, "Feminist Standpoint as Ideology Critique"

Thirteenth Week: Micro-essay Position Due April 26: From Rosemary Hennessy, Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism Chapter 3, "Cultural Study, Commodity Logic, Sexual Subjects" Sections 1-2 Sections 3 R. Hennessy, Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse, Chapters 3- 4 (Netforum Exchange with Rosemary Hennessy April 27-28)

Fourtheenth Week: Post abstract of final paper to Netforum by May 2

Netforum Responses to final paper abstracts by May 5 (You may respond to one particular abstract or to several at once).

Final Paper Due May12