Required Readings
“Theory of the Party” by Phil Neel (2025)
Councilism and Its Critique from “We Unhappy Few” in Endnotes 5 (2019)
Suggested Readings
“Considerations on the Party’s Organic Activity When the General Situation is Historically Unfavorable” by Amadeo Bordiga (1965)
“Proletarians and Communists” from the Communist Manifesto (or honestly just go (re)read the whole thing) (1848)
“Origin and Function of the Party Form” by Jacques Camatte (1961)
Preface to The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson (1963)
“The Party and Class” by Anton Pannekoek (1941)
“Leninism and the Ultraleft” by Gilles Dauve (1969)
“Worker-Student Action Committees: France May 68” by Roger Gregoire and Fredy Perlman (1969)
“Some Thoughts on Organization” by Henri Simon (1979)
“Red May Theses” by Jasper Bernes (2026)
“Afterword to the French Edition of the Future of Revolution” by Jasper Bernes (2026)
“The Strategy of Separation” by Michele Garau (2024)
“Class Consciousness” in History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs (1923)
“The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia” by Lenin (1905)
The Mass Strike, The Political Party, and the Trade Unions by Rosa Luxemburg (1906)
“The Masses and the Vanguard” by Paul Mattick (1938)