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Introduction

1 Lesson

Syllabus Day (9/27)

Module 1: Party and Class: Searching for Revolutionaries in an Age of Social Breakdown

2 Lessons

Lecture (10/11)

Seminar (10/25)

Module 2: “Behind Every Fascism There is a Failed Revolution”: Walter Benjamin, the German Revolution, and “Toward the Critique of Violence”

2 Lessons

Lecture (11/8)

Seminar (11/22)

Module 3: The Commune Form - from 1870 to today

2 Lessons

Lecture (12/6)

Seminar (12/20)

Module 4: Politics of Dispossession; Struggles for Subsistency and Land Autonomy

2 Lessons

Lecture (1/10)

Seminar (1/24)

Module 5: Anti-Imperialism and Its Discontents: Toward an Internationalism from Below

2 Lessons

Lecture (2/7)

Seminar (2/21)

Module 6: The Black Radical Tradition and the George Floyd Uprsing

2 Lessons

Lecture (3/7)

Seminar (3/21)

Module 7: Communist Technology - From Neo-Luddism to Technics for Contemporary Struggle

2 Lessons

Lecture (4/4)

Seminar (4/18)

Module 8: The Trajectory of Contemporary Insurrections

1 Lesson

Lecture (5/2)

Past Lessons (Year One: 2025-26)

14 Lessons

1.1 The Social Theory of Capitalism (9/28)

2.1 Slavery & The American Counterrevolution (10/12)

2.2 French & Haitian Revolutions (10/26)

3.1 The Revolutions of 1848 & the Paris Commune of 1871 (11/9)

3.2 Chicago Anarchism and the Haymarket Affair (11/23)

4.1 The Communist International, the Workers Movement, and the Russian Revolution (1/11)

4.2 Maoism and the Right to Victory (1/25)

5.1 Third World & Anticolonial Struggle (2/8)

6.1 Capitalism & Desire (2/22)

6.2 May 1968 & Its Afterlives (3/8)

7.1 Black Power in the Caribbean (3/22)

7.2 African Liberation Struggles (4/5)

8.1 Living and Fighting in the Present Pt. I (4/19)

8.2 Living & Fighting in the Present Pt. II (5/3)

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Module 7: Communist Technology - From Neo-Luddism to Technics for Contemporary Struggle

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Co-Prosperity - Bridgeport, Chicago

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