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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-11-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-10-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-10-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-10-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money/2020-10-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Indigenous Peoples,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200513T201500
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200429T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200429T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200422T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200422T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200507T155623Z
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Covid19Capitalism.jpg
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200415T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200415T201500
DTSTAMP:20200507T155623Z
CREATED:20200331T032831Z
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Covid-19 Capitalism: Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Reading Group: \nThe year 2020 has brought together a devastating viral pandemic and what is shaping up as the deepest cyclical crisis of capitalism in history. Covid-19 is not the first such episode rooted in the risky practices of capitalist agribusiness\, as detailed in Rob Wallace’s Big Farms Big Flu. We need to set ourselves to the task of how to respond that will have an impact on the causes of the circumstances we are facing as a species. To do this requires organizing and knowledge of the science that is behind the origins and spreading of Covid-19 so that our anti-capitalist activities and campaigns can be effective both in the short and long term. \nRob Wallace’s book is an indispensable handbook to the inevitable pandemics stemming from agribusiness. Monthly Review is making it available at a big discount until April 17. We at the MEP are hosting an online reading and discussion group to share the comprehensive research and writing that is contained in Wallace’s book. We will cover all seven sections\, plus the two-part update being published in Monthly Review’s next two issues. \nFrom the Introduction to Big Farms Make Big Flu:  \n“…humans have built physical and social environments on land and sea that have radically altered the pathways along which pathogens evolve and dispense. \n“Pathogens\, however\, are no mere protagonists\, buffered to and fro by the tides of human history. They also act of their own volition\, if you will excuse the anthropomorphism. They display agency. And they have by their evolutionary changes forced agribusiness to the bargaining table\, a place where that ilk\, given their prior successes\, think they excel.” \nThe book is offered by Monthly Review in paper at $10 or as an ebook at $5 until April 17: https://monthlyreview.org/product/big_farms_make_big_flu/ \nFees for the MEP zoom sessions are sliding scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/covid-19-capitalism-big-farms-make-big-flu/2020-04-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Evolutionary biology,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Biology as Means of Production and Ideology
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Stuart A. Newman\, New York Medical College \nBiological science is simultaneously the hegemonic narrative for understanding the living world in industrial societies and the basis for potential technological transformations of the biosphere and our own species. The 20th century notion of the gene as the primary determinant of living systems has supported rampant privatization of food production and medical and natural resources. With the increasing precision of gene alteration by the CRISPR DNA editing technique\, genetic determinism is now generating proposals for ecological engineering and eugenicist manipulation of future humans. This talk will report on the current biotechnological landscape and describe challenges to its enabling genetic determinist ideology from dialectical and multi-causal explanatory modes within the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology. \nStuart A. Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College\, Valhalla\, New York. He has contributed to several scientific fields\, including biophysical chemistry\, developmental biology\, and evolutionary theory. He has been a critic of genetic determinism in biology and an opponent of eugenic applications of biotechnology since his student days in the 1960s. Newman was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and is a columnist for Capitalism Nature Socialism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/biology-as-means-of-production-and-ideology/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Evolutionary biology,Science and Method
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SUMMARY:Big Farms Make Big Flu
DESCRIPTION:The Marxist Education Project is delighted to host the launch of Rob Wallace’s new book\, Big Farms Make Big Flu (Monthly Review Press). \nIn Big Farms Make Big Flu\, a collection of dispatches by turns harrowing and thought-provoking\, Wallace tracks the ways influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. With a precise and radical wit\, Wallace juxtaposes ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless chickens with microbial time travel and neoliberal Ebola. Wallace also offers sensible alternatives to lethal agribusiness. Some\, such as farming cooperatives\, integrated pathogen management\, and mixed crop-livestock systems\, are already in practice off the agribusiness grid. \nWhile many books cover facets of food or outbreaks\, Wallace’s collection is the first to explore infectious disease\, agriculture\, economics\, and the nature of science together. Big Farms Make Big Flu integrates the political economies of disease and science into a new understanding of infections. \n“If you’ve missed the wit and brilliance of Stephen Jay Gould\, here’s consolation: holistic\, radical science from the frontlines of the battle against emergent diseases. Using the wide-angle lens of political ecology\, Rob Wallace demonstrates the central roles of the factory-farming and fast-food industries in the evolution of avian flu and other pandemics that threaten the entire planet. Bravo to Monthly Review Press for publishing this landmark collection of essays.” —Mike Davis\, author\, Monster at Our Door and Planet of Slums \n“These essays put you in the company of a delightful mind. Wallace is filled with curiosity\, deep learning\, and robust skepticism. In his company\, you’ll learn about phylogeography\, clades and imperial epizoology. He can also weave a mean story\, with the kinds of big picture analysis that puts him alongside minds like Mike Davis’s. Who else can link the end of British colonial rule in China or the devaluation of the Thai Baht to the spread of bird flu? This collection is a bracing innoculant against the misinformation that will be spewed in the next epidemic by the private sector\, government agencies and philanthropists. My copy is highlighted on almost every page. Yours will be too.” —Raj Patel\, Research Professor\, University of Texas at Austin\, author\, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System \nRob Wallace was born and raised in New York City. He is an evolutionary biologist presently visiting the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Global Studies. His research has addressed the evolution and spread of influenza as it relates to the economics of agriculture\, the social geography of HIV/AIDS in New York City\, the emergence of Kaposi’s sarcoma herpes virus out of Ugandan prehistory\, and the evolution of infection life history in response to antivirals. Wallace is co-author of Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process (Springer) and blogs at ‘Farming Pathogens.’ He has consulted on influenza for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wallace lives in St Paul\, Minnesota\, with his daughter.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/big-farms-make-big-flu/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Evolutionary biology,Science and Method
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