Classes/Events
Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsMatt Huber highlights the relevance to the climate crisis of key concepts from Marx's 'Capital' such as value, the hidden abode of production, surplus-value, the accumulation of capital, primitive accumulation, and the expropriation of the expropriators.
Celebrating 75 Years of Palestinian Literature – Final Series
Three weekly sessions on Thursdays at 7 pm US ET, Starting January 9 The MEP’s months-long reading of Palestinian literature concludes in January with a reading of the recently issued ... Read more
Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAn open-ended reading group on Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life - a major manifesto of humanist Marxism and a clarion call for revolutionary praxis through sustained critique of daily living. “Lefebvre pushed philosophy out into the streets,” the critic McKenzie Wark has written; his work has influenced fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, architecture and urban planning, as well as movements including the Situationist International and the activists of May 1968.
Literature of Burundi – A poorly reported conflict
Thursdays in February, Starting February 6, at 7:00 pm US ET In February, the Literature Reading Group will leave countries with extensive literature translated into English for Burundi, an East ... Read more