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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass Offering Through September 30\, 2022
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $60 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and September 30\, 2022. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through September 30\, 2022\, giving an extra month if you purchase during this January. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-4-month-pass-offering-through-may-31/2022-05-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,China,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film Screenings,Gender,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   István Mészáros \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-05-18/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Embrace of Capital with author Don Milligan
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism has swallowed us whole. It’s a love hate relationship.\nA presentation and discussion with Don Milligan\n“So refreshing and joyously subversive to read a communist’s analysis of why communism is so terribly unappetizing.” —Yanis Yaroufakis\nThe “spectre of communism” which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare\, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity\, inequality\, and greed\, and love civic and political freedom. They love mass consumption\, and accept the logic of commerce. Barreling along through wars\, revolutions\, epidemics\, and crises of all sorts\, working people in their millions have consistently dumfounded and dismayed the left\, by their refusal to countenance any alternative to the capitalist mode of life. We have to ask: Is it possible to reverse this reality\, and once again talk of the necessity of communism? \nDon Milligan has been a gay activist\, trade unionist\, and a member of the communist movement for many decades. He published the pamphlet\, The Politics of Homosexuality in 1973\, and The Truth About the Aids Panic\, with Michael Fitzpatrick in 1987\, and also completed a doctoral thesis\, ‘The Aesthetic of Emancipation: A study of the relation between Raymond Williams’s socialism and his literary criticism\, cultural analysis and theoretical writings’\, in 2003. He lives in Manchester\, UK. \nTo order Don’s book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/ordering/ \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-embrace-of-capital-with-author-don-milligan/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,communism,Fascism,Fordism,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   István Mészáros \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-05-11/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-10/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Marx Revival: John Bellamy Foster and Marcello Musto
DESCRIPTION:Shelter and Solidarity and the Marxist Education Project are co-sponsoring this event \nThe Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations \nA focus on Ecology with John Bellamy Foster and a presentation on Communism with Marcello Musto \n“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal and marginal course adoption\, selective co-optation and selective bowdlerization: these are some of the strategies of establishment intellectuals over the years in response to the challenger of the thinker born 204 years ago in Trier. Yet\, here we are near the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century\, and it sometimes seems that Karl Marx’s ideas have never been as topical\, or as commanding of respect and interest\, as they are today.” —Marcello Musto\, from the Preface\, The Marx Revival \nThe Marx Revival is a revelation: a Marx for our times. — Nancy Fraser\nThe Marx Revival  will be the place to start in Marx scholarship.  —Gregory Claeys\nThis is Marx for the 21st century.  —Göran Therborn \nJohn Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. John is the author of the forthcoming Ecology in the Anthropocene (Monthly Review Press)\, the editor of works by Istvan Mészáros. He has written many books including The Robbery of Nature (with Brett Clark) and The Return of Nature\,which won the Deutscher Memorial prize. \nMarcello Musto is co-editor of the Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms series of works with Palgrave Macmillan and  is Associate Professor of Sociological Theory at York University. Marcello has authored and edited many volumes including Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International\, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography\, and Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-marx-revival-john-bellamy-foster-and-marcello-musto/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,communism,Ecosocialism,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   István Mészáros \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-05-04/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-03/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220419T200000
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220409T130000
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse: Last two weeks until spring term
DESCRIPTION:Notebook 3: two more sessions until the next term\nNewcomers are welcome to join this diverse\, and very welcoming  international group of reading discussants when you are able \n“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 \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on December 4\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. These sessions are open to people joining when possible. We are attempting to read and thoroughly discuss each Notebook in a series of 10-12 week sessions.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2nd-session/2022-04-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Grundrisse,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220405T200000
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-05/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220402T130000
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse: Last two weeks until spring term
DESCRIPTION:Notebook 3: two more sessions until the next term\nNewcomers are welcome to join this diverse\, and very welcoming  international group of reading discussants when you are able \n“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 \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on December 4\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. These sessions are open to people joining when possible. We are attempting to read and thoroughly discuss each Notebook in a series of 10-12 week sessions.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2nd-session/2022-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Grundrisse,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220322T200000
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220319T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220319T160000
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation: A discussion with Marcello Musto and Michael Hardt
DESCRIPTION:“The realm of freedom really begins only where labor determined by necessity and external expediency ends; it lies by its very nature beyond the sphere of material production proper. Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his needs\, to maintain and reproduce his life\, so must civilized man\, and he must do so in all forms of society and under all possible modes of production. This realm of natural necessity expands with his development\, because his needs do too; but the productive forces to satisfy these expand at the same time. Freedom\, in this sphere\, can consist only in this\, that socialized man\, the associated producers\, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way\, bringing it under their collective control instead of being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature. But this always remains a realm of necessity. The true realm of freedom\, the development of human powers as an end in itself\, begins beyond it\, though it can only flourish with this realm of necessity as its basis. The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite.” —Karl Marx\, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume Three \nThe postcapitalist system of production\, together with scientific–technological progress and a consequent reduction of the working day\, creates the possibility for a new social formation in which the coercive\, alienated labor imposed by capital and subject to its laws is gradually replaced with conscious\, creative activity beyond the yoke of necessity\, and in which complete social relations take the place of random\, undifferentiated exchange dictated by the laws of commodities and money. It is no longer the realm of freedom for capital but the realm of genuine human freedom.\n—Marcello Musto\, Introduction to Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation \nMarcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto\, Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury\, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford\, 2020). Among his edited books there are Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury\, 2014); Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism\, (Routledge\, 2019); and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge\, 2020). His writings are available at  www.marcellomusto.org and have been published in 25 languages. \nMICHAEL HARDT is a professor of Literature at Duke University\, and a political philosopher whose writings explore new forms of domination in the world as well as social movements and other forces of liberation that counter such domination. In the Empire trilogy—Empire (Harvard\, 2000)\, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire(Penguin\, 2004)\, and Commonwealth (Harvard\, 2009)—he and Antonio Negri investigate the political\, legal\, economic\, and social aspects of globalization. Their most recent work\, Assembly (Oxford\, 2017)\, challenges social movements having traditional\, centralized forms of political leadership and instead advocate a social unionism—a combination of mixing labor organizing with social movements.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Grundrisse,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties Since the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:with author Giorgos Charalambous\nIs today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved?\nGiorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change – the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a ‘new left’\, drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous examines the ‘Long ’68’\, symbolized by the May uprisings in France\, which saw the rise of new left forces and the widespread criticism by younger radical activists of traditional communist and socialist parties. He puts this side by side with the turn of the millennium when the Global Justice Movement rose to prominence and changed the face of the international left\, and also the period after the financial crash of 2008 and the rise of anti-austerity politics which initiated the most recent wave of new left parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. \nWith a unique ‘two-level’ perspective\, Charalambous approaches the left through both social movements and party politics\, looking at identities\, rhetoric and organization\, and bringing a fresh new approach to radical history\, as well as assessing challenges for both activists and scholars. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nGiorgos Charalambous is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance\, University of Nicosia. He is also the co-convenor of the Left Radicalism Specialist Group at the Political Studies Association. Charalambous is the author of European Integration and the Communist Dilemma (Ashgate\, 2013)\, and has co-edited Party-Society Relations in Cyprus (Routledge\, 2016) and Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (Routledge\, 2019).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-european-radical-left-movements-and-parties-since-the-1960s-2/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Italian history,Left Populism,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220217T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220217T190000
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SUMMARY:A People's History of Detroit and Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussion for 4 weeks with the Capital Studies Group of the Marxist Education Project \nThese two books will be the focus:  A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin with Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. \nIn A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. \nDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. \n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\, A People’s History of Detroit imagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\,  Public Books \nTHE CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP is comprised of a group of instructors\, students\, activists\, and others who often engage with close readings of books and other texts that address issues central to the development of understanding how the class struggle between capital and labor has played out and is especially interested in the development of deep historical understandings of the development of capitalism globally\, nationally\, regionally\, and also in areas local to participants. Currently\, the Capital Studies Group convenes on Saturdays 11 am to 1 pm each week in discussion of Marx’s Grundrisse. \n  \nA discounted A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT is available from DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \nDETROIT: I DO MIND DYING is available from Haymarket Books (and they ship quickly) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to the Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit-and-detroit-i-do-mind-dying/2022-02-17/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Fordism,historical materialism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220216T183000
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220210T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220210T190000
DTSTAMP:20220205T031853Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220205T031853Z
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SUMMARY:A People's History of Detroit and Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussion for 4 weeks with the Capital Studies Group of the Marxist Education Project \nThese two books will be the focus:  A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin with Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. \nIn A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. \nDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. \n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\, A People’s History of Detroit imagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\,  Public Books \nTHE CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP is comprised of a group of instructors\, students\, activists\, and others who often engage with close readings of books and other texts that address issues central to the development of understanding how the class struggle between capital and labor has played out and is especially interested in the development of deep historical understandings of the development of capitalism globally\, nationally\, regionally\, and also in areas local to participants. Currently\, the Capital Studies Group convenes on Saturdays 11 am to 1 pm each week in discussion of Marx’s Grundrisse. \n  \nA discounted A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT is available from DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \nDETROIT: I DO MIND DYING is available from Haymarket Books (and they ship quickly) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to the Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit-and-detroit-i-do-mind-dying/2022-02-10/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Fordism,historical materialism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220209T183000
DTSTAMP:20220129T035101Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220129T035101Z
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220202T183000
DTSTAMP:20220129T035101Z
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220131T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220131T233000
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SUMMARY:The MEP Bookstore\, Fall 2021/Winter 2022 (inclusive of shipping—US and Puerto Rico only)
DESCRIPTION:These books are being offered at a discount to all of The MEP community with prices including books and shipping. Each book listed here is part of or related to a presentation\, reading group or series of presentations both ongoing and beginning during the 2021 terms of study. Descriptions of books are either in descriptions on the site or will be described on the site shortly. \nLeft Populism in Europe: Lessons from Corbyn to Podemos  by Marina Prentoulis \nA People’s Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier \nClass\, Party and Revolution\, A Socialist Register Reader \nThe Last Years of Karl Marx by Marcello Musto \nMarx Dead and Alive by Andy Merrifield \nSocialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living \nSocialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living \nPluto’s Wildcat Series: The High Cost of Free Shipping by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\, Organizing Insurgency by Immanuel Ness\, Amakomiti by Trevor Ngwane\, Worker’s Inquiry and Global Class Struggle\, edited by Robert Ovetz\, Augmented Exploitation\, Edited by Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\, Wobblies of the World\, edited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer. \nPluto’s FireWorks Series: Pandemic Solidarity\, edited by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar\, Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson\, Reinventing the Welfare State by Ursula Huws\, and Empire’s Endgame with contributions from Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani and more. \nThe Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks \nVoices of the Paris Commune translated by Mitch Abidor \nBen Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly\, edited by Peter Cole \nBookMarx Bookmarks \nUnfortunately\, we cannot calculate postage outside of the United States so the combined price  is only good for mailing addresses in the United States. If you would like to calculate the cost of book and shipping to another country\, write to info@marxedproject.org indicating your interest and what you estimate postage will be.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-mep-bookstore-january-2021-term-books-with-shipping-included/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220131T133000
DTSTAMP:20211217T004413Z
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220124T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220124T133000
DTSTAMP:20211217T004413Z
CREATED:20211112T015838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T004413Z
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220123T200000
DTSTAMP:20220223T191437Z
CREATED:20210816T163536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T191437Z
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SUMMARY:States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France\, Russia and China
DESCRIPTION:An ongoing free offering \nA close reading of Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions\nConvened with Sam Salour\nStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France\, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol\, published by Cambridge University Press\, which explains the causes of social revolutions. In the book\, Skocpol performs a comparative historical analysis of the French Revolution of 1789 through the early 19th century\, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Skocpol argues that social revolutions occurred in these states because of the simultaneous occurrence of state breakdown and peasant revolution at the same time. \nSkocpol asserts that social revolutions are rapid and basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures. She distinguishes this from mere rebellions\, which involve a revolt of subordinate classes but may not create structural change\, and from political revolutions that may change state structures but not social structures. What is unique about social revolutions\, she argues\, is that basic changes in social structure and political structure occur in a mutually reinforcing fashion and these changes occur through intense sociopolitical conflict. A convergence of peasant rebellion on one hand and international pressures causing state breakdown on the other hand cause revolutionary social movements. \nThe book was highly influential in the study of revolutions\, and has been credited with ushering in a new paradigm. All who register will be put in touch with Sam for information on obtaining reading material. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. As stated above\, ADMISSION IS FREE. \n  \ninfo@marxedproject.org for more information and other events and classes. \nZoom info for these sessions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/states-and-social-revolutions-a-comparative-analysis-of-france-russia-and-china/2022-01-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:China,Chinese Revolution,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,French Revolution,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220120T200000
DTSTAMP:20220426T005413Z
CREATED:20210706T213250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220426T005413Z
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SUMMARY:Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur's novel set in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:A novel by Justin Podur\nwith two weeks of group discussions*\nJustin made a presentation on Siegebreakers on Saturday\, September 18 with the Marxist Education Project’s Literary Studies Group \nUnder the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza\, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together\, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them\, Ari\, a brilliant Israeli spy\, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion\, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege\, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine. \n“Siegebreakers is at once a gritty\, violent thrill ride and the first book I would hand to someone who wants to understand Gaza today.” —Dr. Tarek Loubani\, emergency doctor and volunteer physician at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City \n“Based on an industrious research\, this dramatic and powerful tale shows once more the power of fiction to illuminate and expose what the media fails\, or is unwilling\, to disclose about life under siege in the Gaza Strip and its impact on the people incarcerated in it.”  —Ilan Pappe\, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine \nJustin Podur is the author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship. He has contributed chapters to Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan and Real Utopia. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. \n*Discount codes for purchase of book will be provided with registration \nAdmissions: All events are sliding scale—choose any of the stated to contribute to The MEP. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \nVery sorry. Not enough registrations. Please write for a refund. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/siegebreakers-author-presentation-with-justin-podur-with-two-weeks-discussion/2022-01-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,historical materialism,Insurgency,Israeli occupation,Palestine,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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