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.
The hoplite revolution
7:30pm, Thursday 22 January
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
What is Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ about?
7:30pm, Thursday 29 January
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Civil liberties under attack
7:30pm, Thursday 5 February
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
The South Coast Bluebeard? The trial of John Bodkin Adams
7:30pm, Thursday 12 February
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
1776–2026: Edward Gibbon and the declining empire
7:30pm, Thursday 19 February
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Hegel versus logic
7:30pm, Thursday 26 February
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Mapping the Belt and Road Initiative
7:30pm, Thursday 5 March
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Viktor Shklovsky (1893–1984) and the theory of prose
7:30pm, Thursday 12 March
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
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