Check out our updated discussion sessions through December 2026!

Counseling Communism has decided on our next batch of readings! We will be working through the Molly Crabapple’s new book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund from June to July, followed by some short pieces by Erich Fromm and Theodor Adorno in August and September. In October and November we will cover Part One of Rudolf Rocker’s Nationalism and Culture. We will then close out the year with Eros and Alienation: Capitalism and the Making of Gendered Sexualities by Alan Sears in December.

We (usually) meet on the third Sunday of every month at 6:30 PM EST. You can join us on Signal, same link every month. Links to all readings will also be provided there.

**Dates are subject to change. Please check discord or signal!**

Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. 2026

6/28/26, 6:30 PM EST

Part 1: Underground. Pages 3-92
Part 2: Revolution. Pages 93-154

7/19/26, 6:30 PM EST

Part 3: The Alternate World. Pages 155-252
Part 4: Fire. Pages 253-379

Fromm Versus Adorno Discussion (2 months)

8/9/26, 6:30 PM EST

Erich Fromm, The Method and Function of an Analytic Social Psychology: Notes on Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism”, 1932. 24 pages.
(From the book The Crisis of Psychoanalysis)
Erich Fromm, “Studies on Authority and the Family: Sociopsychological Dimensions”, 1936, 35 pages
Theodor Adorno, “Psychology" - Lecture #8 from History and Freedom Lectures, 1964, 8 pages
Kieran Durkin, “Erich From and Theodor W. Adorno Reconsidered: A Case Study in Intellectual History”, 2019. 21 pages
Optional: "Analytic Social Psychology as Critical Social Theory. A Reconstruction of Erich Fromm’s Early Work" by J. E. Morain (19 pages, 2024)

9/20/26, 6:30 PM EST

Adorno Discussion from newly translated Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2: Social Theory and Politics.

Adorno Public speeches on fascism:
- “The Authoritarian Personality”, 18 pages
- “The Meaning of Working Through the Past”, 15 pages**
- “Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism”, 17 pages
Other Public Speeches:
- “On the Relationship between Individual and Society”, 26 pages
- “Is Superstition Harmless?”, 17 pages
- “The Concept of Political Education”, 7 pages
- "Resignation", 4 pages**

Optional readings: "Discussion and Introduction to The Meaning of Working Through the Past" (14 pages)**

-Afterword to Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Volker Weiss (from Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism booklet)

-Reviewing Adorno by Lydia Goehr (48 pages)**

**Taken from Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords