Day 4, Session 1—It’s Not Over: Lessons for Socialists with Pete Dolack
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThat the results of uprisings as diverse as the October Revolution, the Prague Spring and the Sandinista Revolution did not meet the revolutionaries’ expectations is a tragedy that requires explanation, but does not require us to deem those revolutionaries as failures.
Day 4, Session 2—Labor in the Global Digital Economy: Ursula Huws
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis presentation will tie together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of our last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. Ursula will examine the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation...
Day 4, Session 3—Sexuality, Gender and Globalization
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhat role do sex and desire — some of the most intimate aspects of our lives — play in the emergence and evolution of capitalism, and how are they in turn shaped by capital?
Day 4, Session 4—Approaching Science from the Left
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis panel aims to open a conversation among scholars and activists about how scientific knowledge and practice can help point the way forward, as well as about how science is abused in efforts to preserve and extend capitalist power over labor and resources.