Syllabus

Below is the RMS national syllabus schedule for Spring 2024. It contains information for excerpts as well as links to the texts that will be discussed each meeting.

Schedule

Week 1 – General Interest Meeting

Week 2 – What is Socialism, Article from Red Horizon Issue 1

• https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/what-is-socialism/

Week 3 – Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth by Lenin

• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1903/sep/30b.htm

Week 4 – Prostitution: Liberation or subjugation? From Red Horizon Issue 3

• https://marxiststudents.wordpress.com/2023/08/30/prostitution-liberation-or-subjugation/

Week 5 – History of CPSU(B) Chapter 1

• https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch01.htm

Week 6 – Our Programme & The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement

• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1899/articles/arg2op.htm
• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1900/nov/tasks.htm

Week 7 – Tasks of Russian Social Democrats

• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1897/dec/31b.htm

Week 8 – Movie Night: Red Ant Dream

Week 9 – History of CPSU(B) Chapter 4

• https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ch04.htm

Week 10 – The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War

• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/26.htm

Week 11 – Marxism and Insurrection

• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/13.htm

Week 12 – Movie night: October