The next Sheffield Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms. The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”.
Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion. All welcome, email uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more info.
Reading List:
Marxists.org page on Alienation
Estranged Labour – Karl Marx (Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844)
Work and the Free Society – Anarchist Federation
From Man’s Alienation to Human Community – Internationalist Communist Group (Communism #6)
An Anarchist Critique of Democracy (also available as audio here)
Eugene Kamenka, The Ethical Foundations of Marxism: chapter 7, the Critique of Economics.
Capital Vol 1: the section on the fetishism of commodities
Bertell Ollman, Alienation: part three, The theory of alienation.
Shlomo Avineri, The political and social theory of Marx: ‘Alienation and forms of property’
David McLellan, Selected Writings of Marx, chapter 8 and chapter 9
the commune 
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