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.
Sortition and socialist democracy
7:30pm, Thursday 16 October
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Postponing crisis: is capital running out of time and space?
7:30pm, Thursday 23 October
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Is value in the eye of the beholder? On subjective theories of economic value
7:30pm, Thursday 30 October
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
By saints below and saints above: class struggle in early Methodism
7:30pm, Thursday 6 November
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Marx and the phases of capitalist development
7:30pm, Thursday 13 November
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Flying saucer update: 3Ꮖ/ATLAS and the politics of interstellar visitation
7:30pm, Thursday 20 November
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Classes in the 2020s UK
7:30pm, Thursday 27 November
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Breaking with Labour: the disaffiliation of the ILP in 1932
7:30pm, Thursday 4 December
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
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