Exercises

These resources were shared after CPE's "Who's Got the Power: a Workshop for Organizers" (February 20, 2017) on analyzing the balance of forces.  The session was facilitated by Rebecca Gordon.

The goal of the fourth session of Marxism 101 is to help participants understand how Marxist political economy and a theory of history motivated (or were situated next to other) revolutionary struggles in the past 100 years.

The goal of the third session of Marxism 101 is to help participants understand the concept of historical materialism, its relationship to dialectical thinking, and ways to apply both as methodologies to movement work.

The goal of this second class of Marxism 101 is to help participants grapple with Marx's critique of political economy and to think together about work, workers, and social production and distribution of material wealth in capitalist society.

The goal of this first class of Marxism 101 is to help participants get to know one another, to understand the social and political conditions in which Marx lived and worked, and to gain a cursory understanding of key Marxist concepts.