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Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsA weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism.
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FeaturedAnimals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsA five-session study group on nonhuman animals' relationship with capital as living, breathing, "commodified" beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. In this study group, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism.
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Planetary Crises: Capital vs. the ‘Free Gifts’ of Nature
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group reconvenes this fall and welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a number 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. The recently published books ... Read more
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FeaturedThe Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group this fall to read 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 against ... Read more
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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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Hegel’s Preface to the ‘Phenomenology’
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThis eight-session course with Alex Steinberg concludes our ongoing studies of Hegel's mysterious work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will do a close reading of the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, a work that can be read on its own and is considered the most succinct and comprehensive statement of Hegel's philosophy. These sessions ... Read more
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Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.
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FeaturedAntonio Gramsci Studies: 2025 Series
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe continuing 2025 Gramsci Study Sessions 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 archive of articles and secondary sources on ... Read more
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Octavia Butler: ‘Positive Obsession’ and ‘Wild Seed’
Alternate Mondays, Next on November 24, 5-6:30 pm ET Join us for a new appreciation of Octavia Butler, beginning with Susana M. Morris’s pathbreaking new biography, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler followed by Butler’s prophetic Wild Seed and other short selections. Offered by the Speculative and Visionary Fiction reading group. Morris's ... Read more
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Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin us for a book talk by David McNally on his recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally injects new life into Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor, presenting a new, systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature, planter records and diaries, and slave narratives—to ... Read more
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Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin us for a five-session reading group on David McNally's recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally's book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history, ... Read more
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FeaturedImmigration, Chicano Liberation, and Repressive Responses
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsTuesdays, 7-9 pm ET Beginning November 24 Join us for an introductory study of the relationship between Mexican immigration and the United States: its colonial foundation, vibrant new communities, cyclical labor exploitation, and persistent state-sanctioned repression. The Chicano liberation movement emerged as a direct response to this, and its legacy is critical to understanding immigration ... Read more
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FeaturedHegel, Marx, and Capital
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAndy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx's use of Hegel's Logic in the writing of Capital.
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Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – A Short Course on the Circulation of Capital
Online: 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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