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The Warehouse: Workers and Robots at Amazon with Alessandro Delfanti

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

“Delfanti has done here what more critics of Amazon should — listen carefully to the people whose work makes the corporation function. Those of us fighting for a better future than Amazon's dystopia have much to learn from this book”.  — Dania Rajendra, Inaugural Director, Athena Coalition

$7.00 – $11

Grundrisse: The Chapter on Money (The first two notebooks)

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

“Forces of production and social relations - two different sides of the development of the social individual - appear to capital as mere means, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact, however, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high...” —Karl Marx, The Grundrisse

$10.00 – $20.00

The MEP Bookstore, Fall 2021/Winter 2022 (inclusive of shipping—US and Puerto Rico only)

Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

Books that will be used during the Winter of 2021 sessions—good for a lifetime of learning. There are Socialist Registers for 2020 and 2021, Pluto's Wildcat and FireWorks series. The any four, five or six books offers do include shipping.

$5 – $95

Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The main reading for these sessions will be Alex Blanchette’s PORKOPOLIS: AMERICAN ANIMALITY, STANDARDIZED LIFE, AND THE FACTORY FARM, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism, Marxism and animal liberation, biological reproduction in animal agriculture, and related topics.

$25.00 – $55.00

Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The main reading for these sessions will be Alex Blanchette’s PORKOPOLIS: AMERICAN ANIMALITY, STANDARDIZED LIFE, AND THE FACTORY FARM, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism, Marxism and animal liberation, biological reproduction in animal agriculture, and related topics.

$25.00 – $55.00

Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The main reading for these sessions will be Alex Blanchette’s PORKOPOLIS: AMERICAN ANIMALITY, STANDARDIZED LIFE, AND THE FACTORY FARM, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism, Marxism and animal liberation, biological reproduction in animal agriculture, and related topics.

$25.00 – $55.00

Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The main reading for these sessions will be Alex Blanchette’s PORKOPOLIS: AMERICAN ANIMALITY, STANDARDIZED LIFE, AND THE FACTORY FARM, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism, Marxism and animal liberation, biological reproduction in animal agriculture, and related topics.

$25.00 – $55.00

Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The main reading for these sessions will be Alex Blanchette’s PORKOPOLIS: AMERICAN ANIMALITY, STANDARDIZED LIFE, AND THE FACTORY FARM, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism, Marxism and animal liberation, biological reproduction in animal agriculture, and related topics.

$25.00 – $55.00

Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

The main reading for these sessions will be Alex Blanchette’s PORKOPOLIS: AMERICAN ANIMALITY, STANDARDIZED LIFE, AND THE FACTORY FARM, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism, Marxism and animal liberation, biological reproduction in animal agriculture, and related topics.

$25.00 – $55.00

Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim Our Digital Future from Big Tech

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

James Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas from the local to the international for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there.

$3 – $11

The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman

On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY

Henryk Grossman is a name most socialists or students of political and social theory, let alone the mass of working people around the world, have probably never heard of. Yet Grossman, a Polish Jew born in 1881, deserves recognition as the most sophisticated proponent since Karl Marx of a devastating claim about the nature of our social world. For, if Grossman’s neglected but brilliant insight into economics is correct, then capitalism – the social system that has dominated life all over the globe for the past few centuries – may well be entering what he called its ‘final breakdown’.

The claim that capitalism is unsustainable has been ridiculed since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Capitalists declared ‘the end of history’ – their system had proven to be the stronger and would go on uncontested until the heat death of the universe. The same view dominated after the 1883 death of Marx, whose three-volume masterpiece Capital exposed capitalism as a crisis-ridden and historically transient economic system (mode of production).

$3 – $11