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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)



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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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