Classes and Reading Groups

MEP organizes political education in a number of formats, all geared to support you in your work, study and political engagement. Typically meeting weekly, we have reading groups, similar to topical book clubs. We also have focused study and classes, meeting weekly, twice a month or monthly, with recommended readings, questions for reflection, participant presentations, and special guests.

Please do not be deterred by the start date: you generally can join any of these offerings at any time.

Events

Today

  • Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer

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    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Karl Marx only sketched the concept of social reproduction in very broad terms, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists, starting in the 1970s and 1980s. They argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. This reading group will look at one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work, Marxism and the Oppression of Women.

  • Protective Presence in the West Bank

    Recording available on YouTube
    Special Event

    Live event concluded, but you may watch the recording on YouTube. The only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are … Read more

  • Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2

    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith’s ‘The Wealth of Nations’, which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.

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  • Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right

    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.  This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the … Read more

  • Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series

    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    The continuing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meets Sundays at 11 am ET and will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political … Read more

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  • Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital

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    Online Event – Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    A ten-session study group covering Marx’s Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.