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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsRead 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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Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe 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 Writings Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts. Participants may join in at any time. We share a vast ... Read more
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Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsA six-week workshop with Carl Ratner, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: "in contradistinction to materialism, the active side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such." Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon.
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Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsKarl 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.
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Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAn 8-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.
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Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThea Riofrancos, author of 'Extractions,' unpacks the challenges of "green capitalism" through the lens of lithium, a so-called "critical mineral" essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation.
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Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
Meets monthly on Saturdays, 2-4 pm ET, beginning February 28 The MEP Literature Group hosts a new monthly series, meeting on the last Saturday of the month between 2 and 4 pm. In our new format, each month we discuss a single book, not limited to fiction and branching out to memoir, biography, essay and ... Read more
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