Registrations Open for Spring 2024
Critical School is offering Online Classes.
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Since Fall of 2020, we are offering beginners and advanced-level Courses - for young children and adults, in the following Subjects -
Media Studies (CSM 301 - Impacts Research, CSM 401 - International/Comparative Research)
Philosophy (CSP 101/102 - Marxist Philosophy, CSP 401 - Hegel, CSP 501 - Nietzsche, CSP 502- Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy)
Gender Studies (CSG 101 - Class, Race & Gender, CSG 201 - Feminism in Soviet Union)
Afrocentrism (CSB 101 - Black Bolshevism, CSB 201 - Foundations of Black Power)
Palestine Struggle (CSP 101 - People’s History of the Middle East)
India’s Shift (CSI 101 - India’s Hindutva/Rightwing Politics)
History (CSH 101 - Superstructures of History)
Politics (CSPL 101 - Foundations of Marxism-Leninism)
Psychology (CSS 301 - Psychology of Erich Fromm)
Literature (CSL 701 - Understanding Langston Hughes)
Economics (CSE 301 - Political Economy of Capitalism)
More information on the admission can be found on our Registration page.
Superstructures of History - Tool of revolutionary knowledge, Ruling Class vs. Working Class History, Gendered notions of His-Story, Multiple Truths and Problems of Objectivities, Deconstruction of Narratives, Power of Silence and of Dissent.
Understanding Langston Hughes - Implications of Hughes' Autobiographical Works ("The Big Sea" and "I Wonder as I Wander"), Jazz as Communication, Poetry, Fiction, Humor, Novels, Songs, Pageant, Articles & Speeches; Langston Hughes and Stalinism, Hughes in Harlem Renaissance
Psychology of Erich Fromm - Ambiguity of Freedom, Capitalism's impact on Freedom, Mechanisms of Escape, Freedom under Nazism and under Democracy, Social Psychology of Freedom.
Foundations of Marxism-Leninism - Origins and essence of Consciousness, Categories of Materialist Dialectics, Subject-Matter of Historical Materialism, Class Nature of Social Consciousness in Antagonistic Formations
Bertrand Russell's Philosophy - Science and Superstition, The Harm that Good People Do, Freedom vs. Authority in Education, Sex and Marriage, Nature of Truth and Falsehood, Elements of Ethics in Russell’s Works
Political Economy of Capitalism - Basic Contradiction of Capitalism, What is Capitalist Accumulation, Exploitations in the era of Scientific and Technological Revolution, Problems of Anti-Monopoly Struggle, What is Neocolonialism, Imperialism's place in History
theories
What are the emancipatory potential of various theories and how to rescue them from library shelves, so that they can be actionable? Feminism, Queer Studies, Environmentalism, Psychology, Marxism-Leninism…
praxis
Most public knowledge about famous progressive activists and leaders are sanitized versions of their radical selves. At Critical School, we delve into the lesser known and more empowering aspects about them.
Realisms
Poetry, songs, slogans, essays, journalism, journals, movies, music, documentaries, art, posters, theaters, paintings, propaganda, speeches - all forms of media are political. We distinguish the progressive from the reactionary.