DRAFT of COLLECTIVE SELF-EDUCATION

ItТs supposed that during our self-education this draft will be changed.

 

29.10.2006

 

Which questions were not lightened?

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ECONOMY

 

MARXIST POLITICAL ECONOMY (this block can be united with contemporary capitalism block and we can take for the base HarmanТs book УEconomics of madhouseФ, with Capital in mind)

 

• Introduction: economic laws of development of society
• Production of goods, commodity.
• Money
• Law of cost
• Capital. Production of surplus value Ц main economic law of the capitalism. Factors of production.
• Capitalist profit
• Land rent within capitalism. Agrarian relations within capitalism. [aad]
• Capitalist reproduction.
• Simple capitalist cooperation and manufacture
• Machine period of capitalism
• Wage
• Accumulation of capital and impoverishment of the proletariat
• Circulation and rotation of capital
• Average profit and cost of production
• Trade, credit and financial circulation
• National profit
• Reproduction of public capital

 

 

WORLD ECONOMY

 

• What is contemporary capitalism? (economy of modern capital, development of capitalism, capitalist system of world economy and capitalist integration) [aad]
• Main contradictions of capitalism
• Economy crises
• Total crisis of capitalism

• Imperialism (historic place of imperialism, economic properties of imperialism, imperialism vs. empire, лlate capitalism╗) [aad]
• Imperialism of Russia and imperialism of USSR
• State-monopolist capitalism. Substance and forms. Aggravation of contradictions.

• World finance organizations (IMF, World bankЕ): genesis, capital, relations with political forces (states), precedents of violations of their rules
• European Union: economic interaction between members of EU, economic meaning of European Constitution

 

 

 

 

• International finance capital and itТs organizations, movement of international finances.
• Money. Price of dollar. FRS.
• World stock market. Securities.
• GDP structure and structure of employment.
• War as commodity
• Economic miracle of Japan

 

 

CONTEMPORARY ECONOMY OF RUSSIA

 

• Genesis of Уoligarchic capitalismФ in 1990-th., changing of economy structure

• Contemporary economy of Russia: industries, their share in GNP, who controls what, which person of population is involved in them, correlation of state and private sector, big and аsmall, foreign and Russian capital [aad]

 

• World capital on market of Russia: industries, share compared to national capital [aad]

• State budget: how it is formed, planned, distributed

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ECONOMY OF TRANSITIVE SOCIETIES

 

• Gosplan: what was it and how does it work? When does it bug? [aad]
• Planning. Plan economy. Transition from capitalist economy to planned one.
• Necessity and features of commodities and money relations
• Money and itТs function in workerТs state
• Law of cost in planned economy
• Price management according to plan and price politics
• Socialist distribution. Labor distribution.
• Essence and principles of self-financing
• Funds of self-financing enterprise
• Production costs and profit Ц do we need profit to manage?

 

• Features of reproduction
• Accumulation and consumption
• When working force is not commodity any more
• About market illusions of some лsocialists╗

 

HISTORY

 

WORLD REVOLUTION: HISTORY OF WORKER MOVEMENT, LESSONS OF REVOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIESа

 

• France of 1968, student riots of last years
• Lessons of Chile
• Hungary of 1956
• Cuba. Revolution of 1959. Relations with USSR. Political regime today. Right defendersТ point of view (лWhat you did not want to know about Fidel╗. Cuban GULAG. Cuban special services.)

 

• Bolivia
• Spain: revolution and civil war
• China (history of revolution movement, relations with Comintern, лculture revolution╗, Maoism)
• Nepal
• Bulgaria
• Vietnam
• History of Internationals (from founding of first International to many of forth ones.а Program of Comintern. Program of 4-th International. Program of LRCI) International vs. Social forums)

 

• лRevolutions╗, that took place assisted by USSR and Comintern

 

• Miners strike in England

 

 

HISTORY OF REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA

 

• Worker movement in Russia: one hundred years ago and today
• October revolution

• Soviets as organs of rebellion and as organs of power (transformation of Soviets role because of Thermidor)а
• Military communism: context of this measure, opinions of leaders of revolution, consequences
• NEP: "normal economic policy"/ inevitability of bourgeois reaction
• Struggle within the party in 1922 Ц 1927 (Work by Trotsky "Lessons of October", "Stalin")
• History of opposition USSR
• Stalinist Thermidor: politics, economics, legal aspect (+ theory of state capitalism)
• International policy of USSR and Comintern (there are many materials in УBulletins of Opposition")
• Stalinist falsifications (Rogovin Ц good material

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• Theory of state capitalism. Class nature of the USSR [aad]

• Economic policies in USSR
• History of Marxism in contemporary Russia

 

 

 

PHILOSOPY

 

GENERAL QUESTIONS

 

• Matter and consciousness. Subject of philosophy. Genesis and development of Marxist philosophy. Criticisms of religious world views.

• Matter and itТs forms of existence. Regular relation between phenomena.
• Whatа is a human being, analysis of concept of лhuman nature╗
• Theory and practice

 

 

 

MARXIST PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORYа (to change it to Historic Materialism)

 

• Marxist idea of human history, economic formations, finiteness of human history, transitions between formations as social revolutions (Iskrin)
• Dividing of labor
• Basis and super-structure. Dialectics of production forces and production relations
• Theory of revolution. Theory of permanent revolution.
• Classes
• Proletariat. Modern proletariat. Engineers: to which class they belong to? Intelligence.
• Class consciousness
• Communist revolution as transition to classless society

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• Correlation of random and indispensable
• Theory of future society. Socialism / communism. Communism: full satisfaction of needs
• Idea of "ideology"

 

ETHICS

• About morality (лTheir morality and ours╗)

 

THEORY OF COGNITION, METHODOLOGY

 

• Dialectics as method of cognition. Laws of dialectics. Law of transition of quantitative changes into qualitative ones. Law of uniformity and control of contradictions. Law of negation of negation.
• Problems of studying of Marxism
• Neo-Marxism

 

 

POLITICS

POLITICAL THEORY

• Class politicsааа
• Theory of state. State and revolution.
• Worker state. Democracy and centralism.
• Struggle with bureaucracy in organization and worker state
• Marxist party [aad]
• Party vs. soviets vs. Zones of autonomy (self-management)
• Program of Marxist party. History of RSDRP, RKPb, VKPb, KPSS. Platform and manifest of ICC.
• Marxist organization (theory of organization). Tasks of Marxists. [aad]
• Practice of political activism. Agitation. Propaganda.
• Marxist theory of international relations. National question, rights of nations for self-definition.
• Bourgeois parliamentary democracy
• Fascism. National-socialism.
• New social movements. Antiglobalism / alterglobalism. Tactics concerning social movements. Social forums.

 

• Bonapartism as type of political superstructure.
• Trade-unions [aad]
• Crisis of worker movement

 

MODERN RUSSIAN POLITICS

• Reforms and plans of Russian government (education, housing, medicineЕ)
• Modern Russian army (+history of army in USSR + theory of army in worker state)
• Party system in modern Russia
• International policies of Russia
• Chechnya
• Left and Marxist organizations in the city, country and in the world [aad]
• Practice of left organization by example of WD [aad]
• Stalinism and bolshevism. Analysis of party program of RKRP
• Liberalism (Yabloko, OGF)
• Politics as PR (NBP, лours╗, лgoing together╗, etc.
• KPRF. Analysis of program
• Modern worker movement [aad]
• Trade-unions [aad]

 

 

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WORLD POLITICS

• UN, NATO
• Policies of leading agents of imperialism (USA, NATO, Israel, EU), plans of new aggressions and results (including economical) of previous aggressions

• Migration of labor
• Nationalism and xenophobia / patriotism. Antifascism.

 

• Tendencies in international лleft movement╗. Trotskyism.
• Tendencies in international лleft movement╗. лMarxism-Leninism╗/ Stalinism.
• Tendencies in international лleft movement╗. Maoism.
• Tendencies in international лleft movement╗. Communism of soviets.
• Tendencies in international лleft movement╗. Anarchism and autonomism.
• Tendencies in international лleft movement╗. Social-democracy.

 

• Opportunism. Social-chauvinism.
• Right and centrist parties and movements
• Communista refundazione in Italy
• Left party in Germany