The Communist Corresponding Society is a Marxist discussion group. We host regular public meetings in Oxford, and we have members in a few other places too. The topics we discuss are not confined to the narrow and artificial limits of ‘politics’ as the bourgeoisie understands it: we seek to develop Marxist approaches to questions ranging from economic theory to prehistoric burial practices, from genre fiction to law, from democratic ways of organizing to the reasons why people believe in flying saucers. We draw on multiple strands of Marxist and leftist thinking, and we aren’t always in a rush to nail down definitive answers. At a time when the perspectives for socialist change seem unclear and debatable, the CCS seeks to encourage discussion, analysis, self-education, and self-clarification.
We see ourselves as part of a plural socialist movement, within which no individual person and no organization can claim to carry out all the different kinds of work that socialists and communists could usefully be engaging in. Other people and other groups are making other contributions, and we salute them for it; this is the contribution we feel able to make. Anyone who would like to join in is invited to contact us.
Talks are posted on our audio page and remain up for a week.
How to program in Refal (and other arts of the Brezhnev era)
7:30pm, Thursday 2 April
Town Hall (St Aldates)
America’s defeat in Iran
7:30pm, Thursday 30 April
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
On Hegel’s ‘altogether new concept of scientific procedure’
7:30pm, Thursday 7 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Election 2026: picking up the pieces
7:30pm, Thursday 14 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Territory, jurisdiction, and debates on the origins of international law
7:30pm, Thursday 21 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) and the theory of prose
7:30pm, Thursday 28 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
The American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin
7:30pm, Thursday 4 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Prospects for Pasokification in 2026
7:30pm, Thursday 11 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Symbolism in the folklore of the summer solstice
7:30pm, Thursday 18 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
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