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The seventh week is what I would call the age of rebellion.
The 19th century existentialists, the Ralph Waldo Emersons
and I think that's the most interesting week; portrayed by
Fiodor Dostoyevsky in his Notes from the Underground. Maybe
you will recall they foretold the dilemmas of the 20th century
because in those years the people were becoming uprooted
into an industrialization organization, leaving the guild,
the family and the church and going to the barracks, the
school and the factory. They rebelled in not many things,
including greed. Writers at least and philosophers presumed
that if a man lived like _______________________________
to exist. Here we have, particularly in Dostoyevsky, people
rebelling for a primary reason, I will not be programmed.
I will not act the way you program me to act. They are very
pleased in not acting the way some of the large, so-called
thinkers have programmed them to act. Or as we acted as they
tried to program us.

The 8th week is a collective Marx-Lenin. It'll be only
original stuff here except for some fiction, some novels.
Conrad's Typhoon, "Open Boat". We don't read criticisms of
Marx or criticisms of Lenin, we read Lenin and Marx. Also
a little more of Dostoyevsky who proposed in his meaning of
the Grand Inquisitor what Marx, I think, was trying to
propose and that is that we all really want to live in one
harmonious antheap of universal unity. Which in Dostoyevsky,

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