Muskism, Global Trends, and Political Strategy Today

Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Beginning July 14

For July, read Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed with the Strategic Studies reading group. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff offer us much more than an assessment of the person of Musk. And they assess his business ventures and forays into government and politics only to go further. They invite us to consider what the new technology- and artificial intelligence-driven industries and the growing concentration of wealth and power mean for capitalism, for the world’s peoples, and for political struggles ahead.

To aid in this discussion, we will make available and mix in recently published and forthcoming texts from wide sources, ranging from Pope Leo’s Encyclical on artificial intelligence to strategies for the “Third Reconstruction.” Participants have access to our community chat and our regularly updated study guide.

We study together to understand the wave of reaction which once again has washed over politics, its reflection in both long historical currents and fast-changing global trends, and ways to think strategically about advancing in new directions for the socialist left.