“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.”
Public meetings in Oxford
The epos of everyday life
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 2 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Our choices in the European elections
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 9 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Against modernizing treason
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 16 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Mysteries of the Himalayas: the abominable snowman
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 23 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Mysteries of the Himalayas: the hidden Masters
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 30 May
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
Labour’s economic policies: can socialists support them?
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 6 June
Oxford Town Hall (St Aldates)
Esperanto and the quest for a universal language
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 13 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)
So over the moon: fifty years since Apollo 11
7:30pm – 9pm, Thursday 20 June
Wesley Memorial Church (New Inn Hall St)