Marxist Education Project
Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsParticipants in this class are closely reading and discussing Volume I of Karl Marx’s 'Capital, A Critique of Political Economy.' The second 10-week series starts April 6 with Chapter 6, 'The Sale and Purchase of Labor Power.'
Reading Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks – Winter 2024
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsIn this ongoing weekly reading group, we continue to read and learn from Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. We explore key themes and concepts related to politics and civil society, including race, class and gender, religion, linguistic and other methods of analysis, critical theory, mass media, the arts and cinema, hegemony, and subaltern studies.
‘Trotsky in Tijuana’ with Author Dan La Botz
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin author Dan La Botz for a five-week reading and discussion of his counter-historical novel Trotsky in Tijuana. In La Botz's portrayal, the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was not murdered by Stalin’s henchman Ramón Mercador in August 1940 after all, but was rescued and spirited off to Tijuana at the direction of Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas. ... Read more
Animals, Capitalism, Marxism: A Conversation
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsDinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Alex Blanchette explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. Wadiwel is the author of Animals and Capital and Blanchette is the author of Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm.
David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
The People's Forum 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesDavid McNally joins our 10th anniversary celebration of the MEP with a keynote talk on "Marx and Colonialism: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey."