George C. Comninel
 
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Courses
POLS 3020
Utopia, Power and
Sovereignty

(Not offered in 2008/09)

Readings
POLS 3025
A Century of Revolution

(Taught by Professor
Ross Rudolph in 2008/09)

Readings
POLS 4090
Classical Marxist Thought

(Taught by other faculty
in 2008/09)
  Readings
 
Recommended Bibliography
POLS 6030 / SPT 6101
Theory and Practice
of the State in Historical Perspective

Readings
Recommended Bibliography
Maps
Open-fields
Main Politics Website
POLS 6030 / SPT 6101 6.0A (F/W)

The Theory and Practice of the State in Historical Perspective 

Readings:

G.C. Comninel:  "Marx's Context"

Aristotle:  The Politics

Machiavelli:  The Prince; Discourses on Livy

Jean Bodin: Six Books of the Commonwealth

Sir Thomas Smith:  De Republica Anglorum

New Model Army in Council:  "The Putney Debate"

Hobbes:  Leviathan

Locke:  Second Treatise of Civil Government

Hegel:  The Philosophy of Right

Karl Marx:

"Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations"

Manifesto of the Communist Party

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The Civil War in France

Hague Congress Reports and Documents

"Political Indifferentism"

Conspectus of Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy

Critique of the Gotha Programme

Circular Letter to Bebel, Liebknecht, Bracke and Others

"Labour Rent" (Section II of Ch. 47, Vol III of Capital)