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 cult of personality in The Faerie Queene
7:30pm, Thursday 10 April
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Is British politics getting more Americanized?
7:30pm, Thursday 1 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Reading War and Peace on VE Day
7:30pm, Thursday 8 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Paying with nomina: Roman credit money and its implications
7:30pm, Thursday 15 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
1525–2025: the German Peasants’ War five hundred years on
7:30pm, Thursday 22 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Idealism and materialism in the philosophy of mind
7:30pm, Tuesday 29 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Organizing students in a collegiate university: why is Oxford always bottom of the league?
7:30pm, Thursday 5 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Novelty coffee bars: a spatial expression of class struggle?
7:30pm, Thursday 12 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Mirsayet Soltanghaliev (1892–1940) and the anti-colonial revolution
7:30pm, Thursday 19 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
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