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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together 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 ... Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 3 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'.
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Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues ten sessions on Hegel’s 'Philosophy of Right', a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization. Our study is inspired by the insight of Andy Blunden, in his recent book, 'The Capital-Logic Debate', that the key to understanding Marx’s dialectical method in his investigation of Capital lies in understanding the method Hegel employed in the Philosophy of Right.
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Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2026 Series
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe ongoing 2026 Gramsci Study Sessions meet on Sundays at 11 am ET. We are reading and exploring 'Selections from the Prison Notebooks', 'Selections from Cultural Writings', 'Selections from Political Writings', and Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as they relate to contemporary issues and conflicts.
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Reading Science Fiction and Speculative Literature Politically – Spring 2026 Edition
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupAlternate Mondays, next on April 13, 5-6:30 pm ET MEP's alternative literature group begins a new series of novels, short fiction and non-fiction. Speculative fiction, reborn from traditional science fiction, and also known by its alter ego "visionary fiction" and other identities, including horror, more than ever offers space for exploration of class, race, gender, ... Read more
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Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupWe are currently reading 'The Choice of Civil War' by Pierre Dardot et al. Alberto Toscano calls this work "a trenchant and provocative study of the symbolic, legal and material violence that has been deployed over the past half-century to secure the rule of capital across the planet. The Choice of Civil War breaks with antiseptic images of neoliberalism as the production of docile subjects or the marketization of everyday life, revealing it as the theory and practice of class warfare."
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Planetary Crises: ‘The Alibi of Capital’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group welcomes new participants as we read and discuss a range of important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, and related topics. We are moving to a monthly format and will be covering one book each month. At our next session on May 20 we will discuss The Alibi of Capital, by Timothy Mitchell.
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Literature Group: New 2026 Monthly Series
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP Literature Group's new monthly series meets on or about the last Saturday of each month. Our selection for May is 'Faraway the Southern Sky', by Joseph Andras: A narrator walks through contemporary Paris, identifying the locations where a young Vietnamese refugee/revolutionary lived and worked in a city marked by rebellions and massacres.
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A People’s Guide to Capitalism
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupSummer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism: In ten weekly sessions starting June 8, we will read and discuss Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. This work offers a lively, accessible, and timely guide for those who want to understand, dismantle, and replace the world of the 1%.
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