The Greeley Peoples' Group
Letter from Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge, September 1843
● 2 pages, letter on the role of theory in a revolutionary political strategy.
“Toward a New Concept of Citizenship” (1976) by James Boggs
● 10 pages, speech on the significance of the left in the United States.
“The Little Man and the Philosophy of Freedom” (1926) by Max Horkheimer
● 3 pages, essay on Marxism as a philosophy of freedom.
“Socialism” (1923) by Sylvia Pankhurst
● 2 pages, essay on the nature of socialist society.
“A Non-Dogmatic Approach to Marxism” (1946) by Karl Korsch
● 3 pages, anthology of philosophical texts putting Marxism into its historical context.
Meeting-Two: Class struggles in United States history
“The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset” (2019) by Nikhil Pal Singh
● 7 pages, essay on the historical link of settler-colonial expansionism and republican liberty in American ideology.
“Afro-Anabaptist-Indian Fusion” (1987) by Loren Goldner
● 17 pages, essay on the authentically American roots of American radicalism in religious syncretization across racial lines among the poor and oppressed.
“Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (2006) by Theodore W. Allen
● 23 pages, essay on the development of mass white supremacism in 17th century North America.
“In the American Tradition: The Working Class Movement in Perspective” (1943) by C.L.R. James
● 4 pages, essay on the rise of the first formally organized labor movements in the 19th century United States.
“Revolution and the Negro” (1939) by C.L.R. James
● 12 pages, essay on the history of Black revolts against white supremacy and capitalism.
“Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity” (2020) by James Gregory
● 31 pages, essay on the history of the many American lefts and their political contexts.
Women, Race and Class (1981) by Angela Davis
● 245 pages, book on the history of women’s movements in the United States and their relationship to racial and class dynamics.
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class (2018) by Mike Davis
● 400 pages, book on the history of the American working class’s failures to develop its own independent politics and the late-20th century rise of conservatism in the suburbs. Davis’s account of the rise of neoliberalism brings us to the pre-history of the present.
Letter from Karl Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, July 11, 1868
● 2 pages, brief explanation of how to understand the nature of capitalism.
Letter from Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, January 8, 1868
● 2 pages, brief summary of Marx’s critique of capitalism.
“Part I: Commodities and Money” to “Part II: Transformation of Money into Capital” in Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. 1 (1867) by Karl Marx
● 158 pages, book section about the nature of capitalism as a system of commanding and organizing social labor through monopoly ownership over social wealth, aimed at the appropriation of surplus-labor in the form of surplus-value.
The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook (1963) by James Boggs
● 93 pages, book about the decline of labor unions, the entwined rise of automation and mass employment, and the development of new forms of social conflict as a result.
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1972) by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
● 35 pages, pamphlet about the role of women and children’s labor in reproducing the commodity labor-power and, by extension, capital.
“Dialectics of Dependency” (1973) by Ruy Mauro Marini
● 40 pages, essay on the analysis of the underdevelopment and dependency of Latin American countries as the result of their role in the world-system of capitalism.
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Truth/Power/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument” (2003) by Sylvia Wynter
● 75 pages, essay on the link between the dominant concepts surrounding human progress and capitalist colonialism.
“The Imperial Mode of Living and Capitalist Hegemony” (2021) by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen
● 2 pages, essay on the imperialist nature of consumerism and capitalism as a world system.
“Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common” (2025) by Kohei Saito and Ryuji Sasaki
● 12 pages, essay on the nature of modern digital capitalism and the alliance of Big Tech oligarchs with far-right political movements.
“Global insurgencies since 1968” (2018) by George Katsiaficas
● 13 pages, essay recounting the global rebellious movements of the past half century.
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Soledad Brother (1970) by George Jackson
● 330 pages, collection of letters reflecting on his incarceration, the nature of capitalism and racism in the United States, and the significance of communism to Black struggles.
Interview with Melinda Cooper on Family Matters by Ben Mabie (2018)
● 20 pages, interview on Cooper’s book discussing the rise of neoliberalism and the bias of capitalism in favor of the middle class nuclear family.
“Pathology of Patriarchy: A Search for Clues at the Scene of the Crime” (2013) by Sanyika Shakur
● 3 pages, essay on the interlocking relationship between patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, and the domination of nature
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“In the Shadow of the Shadow State” (2016) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
● 10 pages, essay on the relationship between neoliberalism and non-profits.
An interview with Mike Davis on Trump’s America (2018) by Seán Mitchell
● 12 pages, blog interview on the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism and the class nature of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (2003) by Paolo Virno
● 111 pages, book on the political philosophy of post-industrial capitalism and how it has fulfilled many of the ambitions of previous revolts, albeit in unexpected ways.
Meeting-Five: Theories on Freedom
“The Workers’ Inquiry and Social Composition” (2018) by Notes From Below
● 5 pages, essay on the relationship between research methods and emancipation.
“Chapter 10: The Working Day” in The People’s Marx: A Popular Epitome of Karl Marx’s Capital (1893) by Gabriel Deville
● 9 pages, essay summarizing the political content of the chapter Capital (1867) on the struggle between workers and capitalists over the length of the working day.
“Dignity and the Zapatistas” (1998) by John Holloway
● 40 pages, essay on the dignity politics of the Tzotzil Maya in the zapatista movement.
“Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations” (1857-1858) by Karl Marx
● 54 pages, manuscript on the history of class societies and the seeds of a future communism generated within capitalist society.
“The Potosí Principle: Another View of Totality” (2010) by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
● 13 pages, essay on Indigenous Bolivian autonomy within and against capital, the church, and the state through the alternative everyday rhythm of place-based rituals.
“The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity: A Reconsideration” (1969) by Herbert Marcuse
● 5 pages, essay on the political philosophy of communism and a critique of the deterministic assumptions of classical Marxism.
Workers’ Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society (1972) by Cornelius Castoriadis
● 60 pages, pamphlet on the potential organization of labor and politics in communism.
“Politics and the Unconscious—An Interview with Ernesto Laclau” (2010) by Jason Glynos and Yannis Stavrakakis
● 12 pages, interview with theorist of democracy and populism Ernesto Laclau on his philosophy.
“Some say Occupy Wall Street did nothing. It changed us more than we think” (2021) by James A. Anderson
● 6 pages, article on the legacy of Occupy Wall Street in contemporary politics and the rise of populism.
“The Poor Person’s Defense of Riots” (2014) by Delio Vásquez
● 7 pages, essay on the class dynamics of street politics in the early Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a critique of symbolic protests.
“Bernie’s campaign strategy wasn’t the problem” (2020) by Paul Heideman and Hadas Thier
● 7 pages, essay on the historical significance of Bernie Sanders’ two campaigns for the Presidency to the left and the conservative opposition of the Democratic Party elite.
“The Surrounded: #NoDAPL and Geographies of Indigenous Resistance” (2017) by Nick Estes
● 10 pages, essay on the struggle of Dakota water defenders and their allies against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
“The Collective Power of #MeToo” (2018) by Sarah Jaffe
● 7 pages, essay recounting the rise of the #MeToo movement, pointing out its relevance to movements of domestic and agricultural laborers, and calling for feminist mass politics.
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“Identity Politics and Elite Capture” (2020) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
● 8 pages, essay on the multiple forms of identity politics and their class dynamics.
“Left Populism and Platform Capitalism” (2020) by Nick Dyer-Witheford
● 12 pages, essay on the rise of electoral left populism as an effect rather than a cause of social movements struggling against neoliberal capitalism.
“A multi-city study of the 2020 George Floyd uprising” (2022) by Unity & Struggle ● 35 pages, essay on the street politics of the 2020 George Floyd rebellion and its lessons.
“Against Trans Eradication” (2024) by the Pinko Collective
● 5 pages, essay on the rise of a transgender youth movement against paternal ownership and bureaucratic control over children.
“An Interview with Anti-Imperialist Veteran Torkil Lauesen, Discussing the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Decline of Western Hegemony” (2025) by [comra]
● 15 pages, interview on the significance of the Palestinian resistance to Zionist genocide and the student movement that rose in solidarity in 2023.
“The Fight for Migrant Rights in the U.S.: An Interview with Justin Akers Chacón” (2023) by Brendan Stanton
● 7 pages, interview on the border regime in the U.S. and the efforts of labor movements to confront the repressive policing of transborder migrants.