The Communist Corresponding Society is a Marxist discussion group. We host regular public meetings in Oxford, and we have members in a few other places too. The topics we discuss are not confined to the narrow and artificial limits of ‘politics’ as the bourgeoisie understands it: we seek to develop Marxist approaches to questions ranging from economic theory to prehistoric burial practices, from genre fiction to law, from democratic ways of organizing to the reasons why people believe in flying saucers. We draw on multiple strands of Marxist and leftist thinking, and we aren’t always in a rush to nail down definitive answers. At a time when the perspectives for socialist change seem unclear and debatable, the CCS seeks to encourage discussion, analysis, self-education, and self-clarification.
We see ourselves as part of a plural socialist movement, within which no individual person and no organization can claim to carry out all the different kinds of work that socialists and communists could usefully be engaging in. Other people and other groups are making other contributions, and we salute them for it; this is the contribution we feel able to make. Anyone who would like to join in is invited to contact us.
Talks are posted on our audio page and remain up for a week.
The three sides of the Green Party
7:30pm, Thursday 15 October
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Lex mercatoria: can capitalists do without state courts?
7:30pm, Thursday 22 October
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Value in motion: conservation and transformation in Marx’s theory of value
7:30pm, Thursday 29 October
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Remember, remember: the politics of public ceremony
7:30pm, Thursday 5 November
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Tools that use tools: AI and the production of software
7:30pm, Thursday 12 November
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Clay Cross: forgotten heroes of the 1970s
7:30pm, Thursday 19 November
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
Objective and subjective class from Marx to Matt Goodwin
7:30pm, Thursday 26 November
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
The revelations of Philip K. Dick
7:30pm, Thursday 3 December
Oxford Quaker Meeting House (St Giles’)
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