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Unit of Study POLT2005 - Struggles, Movements, and the Idea of Communism (2021)

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    Knowledge of Marxist theory would be an advantage. Students must attend 4 days of intensive teaching. This unit may be offered in a Session (13 weeks) or Study Period (7 weeks), please note if offered in a Study Period it will have a heavier estimated student workload per week. Please refer to the SCU Unit webpages for further information prior to enrolling.

Unit description

Investigates the current debate over the idea of communism. The unit examines issues such as the new cycle of struggles, class and identity and a return to communism. The contemporary critique of capitalism in a digital age (communicative capitalism) as well as the limits of media politics will be evaluated.

Unit content

  1. Return to communism
  2. Key positions in debate over the idea of communism
  3. New cycle of struggles
  4. Class and identity
  5. The people as the subject of politics
  6. Collective desire
  7. Communicative capitalism
  8. Limits of individualism
  9. Limits of anarchism
  10. The party
  11. Movement and the party
  12. Beyond resistance

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2021

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Explain a theoretical approach to political struggles

Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of politics

Investigate the role of networked media in political struggle

Describe and examine the idea of contemporary communism