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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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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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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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Immigration and Chicano/Latin American Liberation: Repression & Resistance
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Join us for an overview study of the relationship between Mexican immigration and the United States: its colonial foundation, vibrant new communities, cyclical labor exploitation, and state-sanctioned repression, liberation struggles. The Chicano liberation movement emerged as a direct response to this, and its legacy is critical to understanding immigration struggles today ... Read more
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Planetary Crises: Extraction and the Costs of ‘Green Capitalism’
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, the status of freedom with respect to environmental constraints, and related topics. We are currently discussing "Beyond Capitalism" by Aaron ... Read more
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more
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Reading Science and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAlternate Mondays, Next on February 16, 5-6:30 pm ET Join us to sample exciting new short fiction and non-fiction to assess the state of socially-conscious, political speculative fiction today. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego visionary fiction and other its other identities, including horror, more than ever ... Read more
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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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Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe 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 kind of institutions that are required for its realization. We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and ... Read more
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Historical Roots and Political Strategy Reading Group–Spring Series
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Please bookmark and check this page again soon, or sign up for free now for our coming spring study series. We just completed an intensive overview of Mexican and Latin American peoples and struggles in the West and Southwest. We will soon announce plans for our next study series in US ... Read more
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