Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:58:57 -0700 (MST) From: Martha Gimenez <gimenez-AT-csf.Colorado.EDU> Subject: M-FEM: ON LINE SEMINAR ON THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (FWD) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 98 09:08:00 From: Manjur Karim <mkarim-AT-moses.culver.edu> To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK <psn-AT-csf.colorado.edu> Subject: virtual seminar: communist manifesto Please distribute to the relevant lists and individuals. Comrades and Friends: Progressive Sociologists' Network is happy to announce the beginning of a virtual seminar to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto of the Communist Party. The "Manifesto", the most widely read and defining single text in the history of modern socialism, was first published in February, 1848. "League of the Just" was a secret political organization formed in 1836 by the radical German artisans and workers living in Paris. At its London Congress in 1847,the organization changed its name to "Communist League." The "Manifesto" was the political document of the newly renamed organization. While the names of both Marx and Engels appeared as co-authors, the primary authorship of the Manifesto should be attributed to Marx. In Engels' own phrase, "the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to Marx." But then again, the concept of authorship itself needs to be problematized. Like any other text, the Manifesto makes sense within the context of a historically embedded intertexuality. As Robert Beamish, one of the authors participating in our virtual seminar has pointed out "The manifesto was ultimately a collective effort of people who were trying to understand the prevailing social conditions so they could change them... while the document was drafted in its final form by Karl Marx, and the final credit for its organization and rhetorical style is due to him, the content and message of the Manifesto were really the product of an extended, intense, but open debate among committed communist-internationalists as they sought to define their programme nad understand the world they wanted to change." The purpose of the virtual seminar is to stimulate dialogues on the contemporary theoretical and practical relevance of the Manifesto. We encourages commentaries on the papers included in the seminar, as well as other related issues from a multiplicity of vantage points within the general terrain of progressive scholarship and activism. We have three papers so far: Rob Beamish, The Making of the Manifesto* A. Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age Charles Ostenle, Manifesto for Praxis Societies and for a Global Democratic and Socialist Political Economy Date: Marc 4 - March 12 Format: To participate in the conference send mail to LISTPROC-AT-csf.colorado.edu in the message proper write sub psn-seminars firstname lastname Location: You can find the conference papers at http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/seminars or you can send mail to LISTPROC-AT-csf.colorado.edu and in the message proper write: get psn-seminars beamish get psn-seminars ostenle get psn-seminars gunderfrank
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