Upcoming MEP Classes and Events
Reading Gramsci for Today’s Movements
An ongoing study group on the Prison Notebooks and other works of Antonio Gramsci. We explore Gramsci's themes and concepts, including state-civil society relations, historical bloc, hegemony, spontaneity, strategy and tactic, and language. We follow Gramsci’s philological method, addressing such areas as linguistics, cinema, critical theory, literature, journalism, comics, animation, plastic arts, mass media and Machiavellian political studies.
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III
A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism.
Marx’s Capital Volume 1: A Short Course for Today
Have you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.
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MEP Programs
The Marxist Education Project (MEP) operates a unique radical adult education center with roots dating back forty-five years. Our classes, book release events, and panel discussions explore the roots of oppression and give voice to resistance and liberation. After years of in-person programs, we went online in 2020 at the advent of Covid. Our programs provide deep background on issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, and climate. We do this by teaching, reading literature together, and opening up lively, respectful debate.
We have offered close to 2000 individual events and class sessions since reorganizing in …. Mostly we serve a US and Canadian-based audience, and we have participants from throughout the world. Our formats range from classes with assigned readings and discussion questions to reading aloud together in the traditional working-class self-education manner to guest speaker talks and panel presentations with discussion.
As our name suggests, we define ourselves as a “Project” and not as a political organization–though it’s been a long, ongoing project. We see our purpose as Education, though education to support organizers, theorists, and teachers in the struggles they identify with. And we embrace Marxism as our framework, though it’s a Marxism enriched by the full range of liberation struggles since Marx.
Try us out on a class or reading group that interests you, then become part of our community, volunteer to teach, facilitate or organize events that fit and interest you.
About the MEP
The Marxist Education Project is a program of the Movement Education Project Group, Inc., (MEPG) which is registered in the state of New York as a private, nonprofit company and with the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)3.
The Marxist Education Project is managed by an Executive Committee responsible to the Board of Directors of MEPG.
The current members of the Executive Committee are David Worley (president), Fred Murphy (vice president), Lisa Maya Knauer, and Steve Backman
Marxist Education Project
388 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11217-3651
You may contact us by email info@marxedproject.org or on Facebook
MEP’s legal standing, and financial support
MEP and the MEPG are entirely independent of any other organization, party, publisher, or academic institution, and we welcome transparent interactions with people and organizations of goodwill for the advancement of common values.
We very much appreciate everyone for your financial support this past year. You support enable us to cover our main expenses for publicity, outreach, communication, and operations, we need your support to advance in the coming period. We have begun to return to in-person and hybrid events. In addition, to respect the work involved in our programming, we would prefer to pay someone who needs the work and experience for operational support or as paid interns. We very much need to have the flexibility to selectively offer travel and stipends to speakers and organizers which will help us diversify our programming.
We remain committed to the policy of turning away no one. We believe in it and it is also part of the legacy left us by Michael Lardner. All events have a free ticket tier. Our ability to do this in turn depends on the generosity, loyalty and commitment of those of us able to become supporters and sustainers.
We thank everyone who takes part in our events.
MEP Privacy Policy
The Marxist Education Project (MEP) is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of New York. In order to conduct its educational activities, the MEP may request on enrollment forms and maintain on file some limited personal contact information. The MEP does not sell, trade, or otherwise share personal contact information with any outside party.
By registering for any course, one-time event, multi-session pass, or other MEP program, you grant the MEP and the instructor or moderator of the program permission to contact you with information relevant to that program. By registering, you also authorize the MEP to contact you from time to time with information about other MEP programs as well as general news about MEP activities.
You also agree not to contact or cause others to contact MEP instructors and moderators or other participants outside of the specific program or event activities without their permission. Complaints made to the MEP about unsolicited contact may result in your removal from MEP programs.
You may at any time opt out of further contact with the MEP (and/or any instructor or moderator) by sending an email to info@marxedproject.org requesting that the MEP remove your name from our contact lists. Please allow up to five (5) business days for us to remove your contact information.
The MEP routinely records all of its programs and events. These recordings are the property of the MEP, and may not be copied or modified without the MEP’s express permission.
In the case of multi-session courses of study, as a convenience to registered participants, MEP instructors or moderators may share the recordings of individual class sessions with the registered participants for purposes of review. These recordings are never posted for public viewing. You agree not to share these recordings with anyone outside the registered participants. Violation of this agreement may result in your removal from MEP programs.
In the case of public events such as one-off lectures, panel discussions, and book talks, the MEP reserves the right to post edited recordings on public media sites such as YouTube or Vimeo and on the MEP’s social media pages. If you choose to appear on video and/or offer spoken questions or comments, you grant the MEP permission for your interaction to appear in the posted recording.