August 2015
September 2015
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
In this 12-class, we will read and discuss the entirety of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right over 12 weeks.
Find out more »Reason and Revolution
In this eight-week class Chad Kautzer will review how Marcuse masterfully delineated the methodological foundations of critical theory and reconstructed the development of Hegel’s philosophy and its influence on Marx.
Find out more »October 2015
The Russian Revolution 1917—1921
This 11-week class considers the establishment of a government based on the workers councils (soviets) in November 1917, emphasizing the rising influence of the Bolshevik Party.
Find out more »Outside Views/Inside Stories: The Algerian Experience
Writing on Algeria: From liberation movements as a French colony to new struggles of liberation in post-colonial Algeria.
Find out more »Reading Gramsci
Harmony Goldberg will guide this 4-week class covering concepts essential to an understanding of the work of Antonio Gramsci.
Find out more »Extraction | Expulsions | Resistance
This 6-week class explores extractivism and activist responses to it. There will be a related event during the life of this class which entrance fee is included with payment.
Find out more »January 2016
Russia: 1917-1921, The October Revolution to the End of the Civil War
“...those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. ”
― Victor Serge
February 2016
The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
“A mind is like a parachute—it doesn’t work unless it’s open.”
—Frank Zappa
Latin America: Colonized and Post-Colonial Attempts at Liberation
A unique opportunity to read and discuss the documentary history of the massacre at Tlatelolco side by side with Bolaño’s novel of the same.
Find out more »March 2016
What Is Capitalism?
...if we don’t define what capitalism is then what does it means to be ”anti-capitalist”? Don’t we first have to know what something is to know what it is we’re against? Otherwise, how can we ever know if the movement we’re building is based on strategies, tactics, issues and demands that, even if successful, will actually move us beyond capitalism instead of once again simply reinforcing its rule?
Find out more »April 2016
Crossing Borders: Novels and other writing on the Southwest Borderlands
Each Thursday we will look at the continually contested terrain and the peoples on both sides of the borders of the U.S. and Mexico,
Find out more »May 2017
Reading “Finally Got The News”: 3rd Sessions, Part 4
This reading group, designed to accompany Interference Archives’ exhibit Finally Got The News will explore some of the key liberation movements of the 1970s U.S. through the lens of written documents included in the exhibition, as well as excerpts from publications by the activists and intellectuals who led, chronicled and theorized about them. This is not a nostalgia trip, but an opportunity to critically examine some important and often-overlooked threads of our collective history in order to inform our own politics of liberation in the 21st century.
Find out more »May 2019
Use: A Users’ Manual
...we approach the various ways that “use” enters into and exercises power within our lexicon, performances, and politics. From commonplace phrases like “what’s the use?” and “make yourself useful!” to the Marx’s explication of a commodity’s use value, the language of use pops up in far flung and sometimes unexpected spheres. How do we delineate the useful and the useless, the usual and the unusual?
Find out more »Marx and Engels: Political and Historical Works, Part 1
As Engels stated at the grave of Marx in 1883:
“…Marx was before all else a revolutionist. His real mission in life was to contribute, in one way or another, to the overthrow of capitalist society and of the state institutions which it had brought into being, to contribute to the liberation of the modern proletariat, which he was the first to make conscious of its own position and its needs, conscious of the conditions of its emancipation. Fighting was his element. ”
Join us this May as we read early political and historical works up to the 1848 revolutionary wave.