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SUMMARY:Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
DESCRIPTION:A Cultural Politics Series\nAntonio Gramsci is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. 4 more sessions of this seminar continue a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, delving into key themes related to civil society\, the state\, hegemony\, subaltern studies\, cultural analysis\, race\, class and gender studies\, film studies\, linguistics\, and critical theory. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. \n  \n\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. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/studies-in-the-works-of-antonio-gramsci-with-piruz-alemi/2021-10-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Fordism,Hegemony,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor Organizing,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. In Volume I Marx demystifies “the commodity” by identifying the real sources of the production of wealth\, namely\, the human subject through our labor and nature. Capital subsumes these as commodities which are consumed within the process of production. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \n \nWe will begin our study of Volume II study by situating this volume in relation to the historical process of development of capitalist society which is premised on its specific social form of societal re-production\, the production of capital. To do so we will study the closing sections of the Penguin edition of Volume I\, specifically\, Part VIII: “So-called Primitive Accumulation” and the “Appendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production”. \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nMARY BOGER\, an ethnographic researcher\, has been teaching Capital since the first School for Marxist Education opened in 1975. Her major concerns are centrality of labor\, shifts in the global working class\, advancing international solidarity that can challenge the prerogatives of globalized capital and begin to shift our resources and activities towards remediation of nature and reclamation of our human species capacities. Mary has an MA in Economics\, PhD in Sociology (A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians under Israeli Citizenship). \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/capital-book-ii-the-process-of-circulation-of-capital/2021-10-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210925T160000
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SUMMARY:Urban Displacements and Contemporary Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism\nwith author Susanne Soederberg\n \nIn the 1870s\, Friedrich Engels published a series of articles on “The Housing Question\,” wherein he argued that decent\, secure housing for the working class is incompatible with the commodity nature of urban property and human labor power in the capitalist system\, as the movements of capital inevitably will undermine all piecemeal reforms. Soederberg pushes beyond dominant debates by treating low-rent housing as a unique commodity that provides a necessary place for the societal reproduction of labor power while being integrated into the global dynamics of capitalism. She argues that historical and geographical configurations of monetized governance\, including landlords\, employers and inter-scalar state practices\, have served to reproduce urban displacements and obfuscate their gendered\, class and racialized underpinnings. The outcome is the everyday facilitation and normalization of urban poverty and social marginalization on one side\, and capital accumulation on the other.Berlin\, Dublin\, and Vienna are case studies. \n“What is the role of racialised barriers to housing in changing landscapes of accumulation? How does renting become a central process in disuniting working people? This insightful work guides the reader through this most urgent of debates.” —Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Centre for Migration\, Refugees and Belonging\, University of East London \nSusanne Soederberg\, Professor of Political Economy in Global Development Studies at Queen’s University\, Ontario\, Canada\, is also the author of Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry (2014) and Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism (2010).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/urban-displacements-and-contemporary-capitalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Enclosures,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210911T140000
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SUMMARY:Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States
DESCRIPTION:with author Andrew Kolin\nAndrew Kolin presents a detailed explanation of the essential elements that characterize capital’s relations to the working class and how capital relies on various forms of repressing reform and revolutionary movements by workers. The repression is directly linked to the class struggle between capital and labor. The starting point examines labor repression after the American Revolution. Andrew’s book then follows the role of the state along with the explosive growth of American capitalism to analyze the long history of capital and labor conflict with details of the US state being aligned with the interests of capital throughout American history. \nWholesale exclusion of labor from a fundamental role in framing policy in these institutions was crucial in understanding the unfolding of labor repression. Repression emerges amid a social struggle to acquire and maintain control over policy-making bodies\, which pits the few against the many. In response\, labor attempts to push back against institutional exclusion in part by the formation of labor unions. Capital reacts to such actions using repression to prevent labor from having a greater role in social institutions. For instance\, this is played out inside the workplace as capital and labor engage in a political struggle over the function of the workplace. Given capital’s monopoly of ownership\, capital employs various means to repress labor at work\, including the introduction of technology\, mass firings\, crushing strikes\, and the use of force to break up unions. \n \n  \nThe role of the state is not to be overlooked in its support of elite control over production\, as well as aiding through legal means the growth of a capitalist economy in opposition to labor’s conception of greater economic democracy. Andrew’s work explains how and why the working classes will continue to confront repression by capital in old and new forms as we approach the second quarter of the 21st century. \nAndrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College. \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. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/political-economy-of-labor-repression-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Marx's Capital,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210815T180000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-08-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210808T180000
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-08-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-08-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-07-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210718T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210718T200000
DTSTAMP:20210815T015315Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-07-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210714T170000
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SUMMARY:WOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Editor Peter Cole\nThe Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago\, it rapidly gained members across the world thanks to its revolutionary\, internationalist outlook. By using powerful organizing methods including direct-action and direct-democracy\, it put power in the hands of workers. This philosophy is labeled as ‘revolutionary industrial unionism’ and the members called\, affectionately\, Wobblies. \nThis book is the first to look at the history of the IWW from an international perspective. Bringing together a group of leading scholars\, it includes lively accounts from a number diverse countries including Australia\, Canada\, Mexico\, South Africa\, Sweden and Ireland\, which reveal a fascinating story of global anarchism\, syndicalism and socialism. \nPETER COLE is Professor of History at Western Illinois University and Research Associate at the Society\, Work and Development Institute\, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront (University of Illinois Press\, 2007). \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied attendance because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to receive the url for access to this or any other class or event. \n  \nWednesday\, July 14  • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wobblies-of-the-world-a-global-history-of-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Syndicalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210711T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210711T200000
DTSTAMP:20210815T015315Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210815T015315Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, V1\, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Sam Salour\nA close reading with the Capital Studies Group convened by Sam Salour • SUNDAYS\, 6:00 – 8:00 PM via Zoom\nBEGINNING JULY 11! We will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital\,labor power\, surplus value and the valorization process. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. ADMISSION IS FREE. \ninfo@marxedproject.org for other events and classes. \nThe link for participation: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-v1-part-8-the-so-called-primitive-accumulation-a-closer-reading/2021-07-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,Food and politics,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T160500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T180000
DTSTAMP:20210627T023901Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210627T023901Z
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles\, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation\, mass production\, gender\, affective and reproductive labour\, syndicalism and independent unions\, and labour and Leftist social and political movements\, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T180000
DTSTAMP:20210627T023901Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210627T023901Z
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles\, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation\, mass production\, gender\, affective and reproductive labour\, syndicalism and independent unions\, and labour and Leftist social and political movements\, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:AUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work
DESCRIPTION:with editors Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nand three working guests who work at jobs being altered by the Interpretation Machines of Artificial Intelligence\nAugmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on workers’ lives. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilize innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers\, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. \nGoing beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilise innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers\, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. They also show that workers are not taking this lying down\, providing case studies of new and exciting form of resistance that are springing up across the globe. \nPHOEBE V. MOORE is Assoc Professor of the Futures of Work based at the University of Leicester School of Business and a Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). Her most recent book is The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work\, Technology and What Counts (Routledge\, 2018). JAMIE WOODCOCK is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity Press\, 2019)\, Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket\, 2019)\, and Working The Phones (Pluto\, 2016). His research focuses on labor\, work\, the gig economy\, platforms\, resistance\, organizing\, and videogames. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied attendance because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to receive the url for access to this or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/augmented-exploitation-artificial-intelligence-automation-and-work/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Globalization,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives
DESCRIPTION:with editor Robert Ovetz and researcher Gifford Hartman\nRumors of the death of the global labor movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement\, workers’ struggle is being reborn from below by workers themselves. \nBy engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers’ inquiry\, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions\, the technical composition of capital\, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics\, strategies\, organizational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries\, from call center workers to platform\, trucking\, cleaning\, logistics\, mining\, auto factories\, teachers\, and adjunct professors\, are re-energizing unions\, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers’ organizations. \nIn one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle\, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors\, looking at workers’ movements in China\, Mexico\, the US\, South Africa\, Turkey\, Argentina\, Italy\, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders\, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do. \nROBERT OVETZ is a Lecturer in Political Science at San Jose State University in California. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill\, 2018 and Haymarket\, 2019) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society. GIFFORD HARTMAN is a member of the Global Supply Chain Study/Research Group (https://libcom.org/blog/empire-logistics) and is an adult educator\, labor trainer and working class historian. He has helped organize wildcat strikes at his own workplace and training sessions to build working class solidarity worldwide. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url to gain access to this event or any other event or class of The Marxist Education Project. \nThe price of the book includes shipping. This book offer is only good for the US unless you are willing to pay the difference between US Media Mail costs and the cost to mail to the country you want the book shipped to.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/workers-inquiry-and-global-class-struggle-strategies-tactics-objectives/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Workers’ Inquiry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210612T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210612T160000
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SUMMARY:Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements
DESCRIPTION:with author Trevor Ngwane\nCan people who live in shantytowns\, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive\, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can. In a study conducted in dozens of South Africa’s shack settlements\, where more than 9 million people live\, Trevor Ngwane finds thriving shack dwellers’ committees that govern local life\, are responsive to popular needs and provide a voice for the community. These committees\, called ‘amakomiti’ in the Zulu language\, organize the provision of basic services such as water\, sanitation\, public works and crime prevention especially during settlement establishment. \nAmakomiti argues that\, contrary to common perception\, slum dwellers are in fact an essential part of the urban population\, whose political agency must be recognized and respected. In a world searching for democratic alternatives that serve the many and not the few\, it is to the shantytowns\, rather than the seats of political power\, that we should turn. \nTrevor Ngwane is a scholar activist who spent twenty years as a full-time organizer in South African trade unions\, community organizations and social movements before and after the defeat of apartheid. He later obtained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg where he now teaches and conducts research. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url to gain access to this event or any other event or class of The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/amakomiti-grassroots-democracy-in-south-african-shack-settlements/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Financialization,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,South Africa
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210606T160000
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SUMMARY:Re:sources / Re:lations with Working Group on Globalization and Culture
DESCRIPTION:The Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture will share our collective research on two ubiquitous words of our contemporary vocabulary: resources and relations. There was a meeting on May 16 (described below in thematic Clusters One)  and the next meeting will take place on June 6. \nThe current WGGC collective of Aanchal Saraf\, Bench Ansfield\, Clara Wilson-Hawken\, Ever Osorio\, Jessica Marion Modi\, Lucero Estrella\, Maru Pabón\, Michael Denning\, Monique Flores Ulysses\, Peter Raccuglia\, Salonee Bhaman\, and Simon Torracinta — work in American studies\, African-American studies\, Latinx studies\, history\, literary criticism\, science and technology studies\, and women’s\, gender and sexuality studies. WGGC will share their collective research on two ubiquitous words of our contemporary vocabulary: resources and relations. \nTHEMATIC CLUSTERS ONE: On Sunday May 16\, we will present the first two clusters\, Affordances for Whom? Making and Unmaking Resources\, and Language as Resource and Relation. The first part explores how land\, nature\, people\, and time are conceived of and transformed into “resources”: depictions of land as a resource for migrants\, and of migrants for empires; of Indigenous land as a resource for extraction and settlement; and of time as an abstract resource for leisure in the twentieth century. The second part examines language\, poetry\, and political slogans as resources and relations from post-emancipation Black cultures to contemporary Mexican feminisms. How do the abstractions of the category of “resource” – enforced by states\, settlers\, or science – change the meanings of concrete things? Who gets to define how and for whom resources are made? \nTHEMATIC CLUSTERS TWO: On Sunday June 6\, we will present the final two clusters: Source Memory: Relating Archival Contradictions and The Relations of Human Resources. The first part offers disparate meditations on the complex process of engaging with archival sources. Cohering around the verb “relate” – which means both to form an affinity or kinship with and to narrate a story – we take up stories of a record producer in everything but her own words\, of an immigration bureaucracy’s interrogation of a man and his family\, and of the piecing together of family histories in the intergenerational wake of an earthquake. Our final cluster probes the half-lives of human resources\, from the origins of the discourse of human resources\, to the depletion of inner resources and the politics of “burnout\,” to the valuations of risk and life within viatical insurance in a pandemic. \nThe Working Group on Globalization and Culture http://wggc.yale.edu/ is an interdisciplinary cultural studies laboratory that has been practicing collective research at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented work at numerous cultural studies conferences as well at The Marxist Education Project\, the Left Forum\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Projects have been published as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text’s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” appeared in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to get what you need to attend these events or any other classes or events. We do record all events and classes. \n  \nFor all those who are attending June 6 who would like to listen to the presentations from May 16\, please write to info@marxedproject.org and request that the recording be sent to you via email. \n.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/resources-relations-with-working-group-on-globalization-and-culture/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Migration,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Speculative fiction
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-27/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories
DESCRIPTION:with author Victor Wallis\nThe fourth in the ongoing Palgrave Macmillan series Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms \nThe level of popular discontent—in the United States as elsewhere—has shown a dramatic increase in recent years\, but has yet to crystallize into a cohesive anti-capitalist political force. Socialist Practice aims to contribute to a popular movement for socialism. It does so by 1) revisiting\, under present conditions\, longstanding questions of Marxist theory and revolutionary history\, and 2) illustrating the range of issues\, activities\, and forms of expression that can both inform and be informed by a Marxist approach. Essays spanning a range of national experiences address the crying need to generate a society-wide awakening\, grounded in purposeful discussion among all those (the vast majority) whose interests are ill-served by continuation of the status quo. \nVictor Wallis is a professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Berklee College of Music\, USA\, and was for twenty years the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy. He is the author of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism (2018) and Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics (2019). \nMarx\, Engels\, Marxisms\nThe Marx renaissance is underway on a global scale. Wherever the critique of capitalism re-emerges\, there is an intellectual and political demand for new\, critical engagements with Marxism. MARX\, ENGELS\, AND MARXISMS (edited by Marcello Musto & Terrell Carver\, with Babak Amini\, Francesca Antonini\, Paula Rauhala & Kohei Saito as Assistant Editors) is a peer-reviewed series. It is broad — comprised of monographs\, edited volumes\, critical editions\, reprints of old texts\, as well as translations of books already published in other languages. These volumes come from a wide range of political perspectives\, subject matters\, academic disciplines and geographical areas\, producing an eclectic and informative collection that appeals to a diverse and international audience. Main areas of focus include: the oeuvre of Marx and Engels\, Marxist authors and traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries\, labor and social movements\, Marxist analyses of contemporary issues\, and the reception of Marxism in the world. \nfor information on the entire series: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14812 \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for an inability to pay. If you are unable to make a contribution at this time\, simply write to info@marxedprojet.org to obtain the URL of the code to give you access to this or any other event or class. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-practice-histories-and-theories/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210522T140000
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SUMMARY:Organizing Insurgency: Workers’ Movements in the Global South
DESCRIPTION:A Pluto Wildcat with author Immanuel Ness\nWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North\, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism. \nLooking at contemporary case studies in India\, the Philippines and South Africa\, this book affirms the significance of political and economic representation to the struggles of workers against deepening levels of poverty and inequality that oppress the majority of people on the planet. Immanuel Ness shows that workers are eager to mobilize to improve their conditions\, and can achieve lasting gains if they have sustenance and support from political organizations. From the Dickensian industrial zones of Delhi to the agrarian oligarchy on the island of Mindanao\, a common element remains – when workers organize they move closer to the realization of socialism\, solidarity and equality. \nImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author and editor of many books\, including Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto\, 2015) and Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South (Haymarket\, 2017).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/organizing-insurgency-workers-movements-in-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
DESCRIPTION:This series is based on the new Rowan and Littlefield volume edited by Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon. All participating session leaders are contributors to the forthcoming\, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, which will be available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg \nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation. Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. \nThis six-part seminar series explores some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy\, including the mass strike; her reflections\, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration\, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present. \n  \nUnfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women\nPaget Henry\, Brown University; Sandra Rein\nMay 15th\, 2-4 pm USA DST / 6-8pm GMT\nSession Six stages conversations between Rosa and other revolutionary women with whom she could not have spoken\, including Paget Henry speaking about Sylvia Wynter and Claudia Jones\, and Sandra Rein will speak of the revolutionary legacy of Raya Danayevskaya. \nThe May 15 panel will be from 2 to 4 pm. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to get information on attending this series or any other event or class at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-a-six-part-series/2021-05-15/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
DESCRIPTION:This series is based on the new Rowan and Littlefield volume edited by Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon. All participating session leaders are contributors to the forthcoming\, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, which will be available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg \nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation. Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. \nThis six-part seminar series explores some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy\, including the mass strike; her reflections\, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration\, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present. \n  \nUnfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women\nPaget Henry\, Brown University; Sandra Rein\nMay 15th\, 2-4 pm USA DST / 6-8pm GMT\nSession Six stages conversations between Rosa and other revolutionary women with whom she could not have spoken\, including Paget Henry speaking about Sylvia Wynter and Claudia Jones\, and Sandra Rein will speak of the revolutionary legacy of Raya Danayevskaya. \nThe May 15 panel will be from 2 to 4 pm. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to get information on attending this series or any other event or class at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-a-six-part-series/2021-05-15/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:from the Pluto Books Wildcat Series\nwith Editors Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nAmazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO\, Jeff Bezos\, has become the richest person in history\, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the age of Amazon Capitalism. \n‘One-click’ instant consumerism and its immense variety of products has made Amazon a worldwide household name\, with over 60% of US households subscribing to Amazon Prime. In turn\, these subscribers are surveilled by the corporation. Amazon is also one of the world’s largest logistics companies\, resulting in weakened unions and lowered labor standards. The company has also become the largest provider of cloud-computing services and home surveillance systems\, not to mention the ubiquitous Alexa. \nWith cutting-edge analyses\, this book looks at the many dark facets of the corporation\, including automation\, surveillance\, tech work\, workers’ struggles\, algorithmic challenges\, the disruption of local democracy and much more. The Cost of Free Shipping shows how Amazon represents a fundamental shift in global capitalism that we should name\, interrogate and be primed to resist. \nJAKE ALIMAHOMED-WILSON is Professor of Sociology at California State University\, Long Beach. His research interests are in the areas of logistics\, racism and labour\, and workers’ struggles. He is the author of Solidarity Forever? Race\, Gender\, and Unionism in the Ports of Southern California (Lexington Books\, 2016)\, co-author of Getting the Goods: Ports\, Labor\, and the Logistics Revolution (Cornell University Press\, 2008) and the editor of Choke Points (Pluto\, 2018). \nELLEN REESE is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Riverside\, and author of They Say Cutback\, We Say Fightback! and co-editor of Wages of Empire. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for links in order to participate in this or other events or classes of The MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-cost-of-free-shipping-amazon-in-the-global-economy/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Reconsidering Primitive Accumulation
DESCRIPTION:A 2 part presentation \n \nThis session will be devoted to engaging with Rosa’s pivotal reworking of the concept of primitive accumulation\, with attention to historical and contemporary South Africa\, medieval European race-making and its legacies\, and contemporary commodification of women’s reproductive labor. \nEssays under consideration are: “Disaggregating Primitive Accumulation”\, Robert Nichols; “Luxemburg’s Contemporary Resonances in South Africa: Capital’s Renewed Super-Exploitation of People and Nature”\, Patrick Bond; “Primitive Accumulation and the Government of the State in Post-Apartheid South Africa”\, Ahmed Veriava; “Rosa Luxemburg and the Primitive Accumulation of Whiteness”\, Siddhant Issar\, Rachel H. Brown\, and John McMahon; and “Creolizing The Accumulation of Capital through Social Reproduction Theory: A Distinctively Luxemburgian Feminism”\, Ankica Čakardić \nSession A 12 noon to 2 pm\nRobert Nichols\, University of Minnesota\nPatrick Bond\, University of the Western Cape\nAhmed Veriava\, University of Witwatersrand\nSession B 2:30 to 4:30 pm\nSiddhant Issar\, University of Massachusetts Amherst\nRachel H. Brown\, Washington University in St. Louis\nJohn McMahon\, SUNY Plattsburgh\nAnkica Čakardić\, University of Zagreb\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-reconsidering-primitive-accumulation/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,South Africa
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Dual Presentation: Community Restaurants with Benjamin Selwyn / Postcapitalism: Alternatives or Detour?
DESCRIPTION:Community Restaurants: Decommodifying Food as Socialist Strategy with Benjamin Selwyn \nThe outbreak of Covid-19 has exacerbated many of the system’s worst aspects. In the UK\, the birthplace of free wage-labor based capitalist agriculture\, the pandemic has exacerbated existing food inequities. The pandemic has stimulated discussions about how to remedy the world’s corporate-dominated food system. The most popular alternative visions propose shifting production and consumption away from meat increasingly to plant-based diets produced according to agro-ecological principles. While these approaches could be part of a broader solution\, until now they have tended to eschew explaining the food system’s inequities in class-relational terms. \nThis essay argues that the root problems of the contemporary food system are three-fold: (1) it is rooted in\, and depends upon\, the commodification of labour\, food\, and natural resources\n(including land); (2) that these commodities are subordinate to capitalism’s endless drive of exploitation-based accumulation; and (3) that the food system itself incorporates\, and\ncontributes to reproducing\, these dynamics throughout the wider capitalist system. Facilitating healthy\, increasingly plant-based diets should be part and parcel of a socialist agenda. \nWhat might an emergent alternative food system look like? How could it decommodify food inorder to reduce working class market dependence while enhancing working class health? How could it increase workers’ democratic control over its production\, distribution and consumption? How could it reduce race and gender inequalities? How could the construction of such an alternative system facilitate political alliance building amongst oppressed and exploited groups? How could it enable workers’ organizations to encroach upon the power of capital? This essay suggests that community restaurants\, serving free and cheap food\, represent a socialist demand that can fulfil the above criteria \nPost-Capitalism: Alternatives or Detours? with Greg Albo \nThe main political reference points in opposition to neoliberalism today – the constituent organizations of the Party of the European Left\, the platforms associated with the left coalitional Iberian governments\, the policy proposals that emerged from the British Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn\, and the Bernie Sanders candidacy in the Democratic Party presidential primaries – converge in a common rejection of social democracy's political cynicism and economic agenda seeking a return to one or another variant of competitive corporatism. The characteristic programme has been along the lines of the annual Euro-Memorandum: an anti-austerity\, ‘Keynes-plus’ reversal of the economic policy regime of neoliberalism\, recalling the alternative economic strategies of the 1970s\, but now set within a far less ambitious transitional policy matrix. \nThere is\, however\, deep-seated scepticism toward any of these agendas among many of the most militant opponents of neoliberalism\, who have insisted on the importance of advancing a postcapitalist’ future. For them\, the necessary break from neoliberalism is too sharp\, and the disintegration of the historical institutions of the left too severe\, for a rehabilitation – at\nwhatever scale of intervention – of a more egalitarian growth model that would recall the productivism and bureaucracy of postwar Fordism. Yet a more determined anti-capitalist seizure of power\, occupation of the institutions of the state\, and a program of nationalization of the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy\, is even less convincing for them. What is needed for renewing an emancipatory politic is thus quite different\, and has been advanced in a variety of forms as projects for ‘post-capitalism’: in the construction of ‘real utopias’ offering new patterns of asset distribution and ownership ‘over work’; in the extension of practices of ‘commoning’ autonomous from the capitalist state and ‘apart from work’ as value production; and in the ‘acceleration’ of the pace of technological change toward ‘full automation’ to open up a ‘post-work’ social horizon. Such postcapitalist projects\, it is argued\, prefigure a more direct\, participatory democratic order as well as a more direct\, less state-dependent means of transcending value production. \nThe question is\, where exactly do these ‘real utopias’ of post-capitalism really take us? What openings do they suggest for the transformation of the economy and state necessary to sustain\nsocialism as ‘the real movement which abolishes the present state of things’? That is\, do they actually point beyond capitalism or rather offer a series of detours toward the renewal of a ‘mixed economy’ inside capitalism? \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/dual-presentation-community-restaurants-with-benjamin-selwyn-postcapitalism-alternatives-or-detour/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: The Mass Strike Past and Present
DESCRIPTION:with Rafael Khachaturian\, Josué Ricardo López\, and Sami Zemni \nOften misread as a narrowly economic phenomenon\, Rosa understood general or mass strikes as harbingers of the revolution to come. The speakers in this fourth session reposition her analysis in the contexts of the United States Civil War\, the Arab Spring\, and the twenty-first century migrations northward through the American hemisphere. \nAuthors and essays discussed are: “The Living Pulsebeat of the Revolution”: Reading Luxemburg and Du Bois on the Strike”\, by Rafael Khachaturian; “Luxemburg on Tahrir Square: Reading the Arab Revolutions with Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike”\, by Sami Zemni\, Brecht De Smet\, and Koenraad Boegaert; and\, “Migrant Caravans and Luxemburg’s Spontaneous Mass Strike∏\, Josué Ricardo López \nRafael Khachaturian\, University of Pennsylvania; Sami Zemni\, Ghent University; Josué Ricardo López\, University of Pittsburgh \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url that gives the link to participate in this or another event or class. \nThe ebook of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg is now available. Please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive a discount code so as to purchase on-line.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-the-mass-strike-past-and-present/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Rosa Luxemburg,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, Session 3—Revolutionary Subjects
DESCRIPTION:with Robin D.G. Kelley\, Jane Ana Gordon\, Gunnef Kaan\, Maria Theresa Starzmann \nThis\, the third session of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, explores what it means to act as a revolutionary subject through analysis of Walter Rodney’s ambivalence about Rosa’s criticisms of revolutionary Russia\, critical consideration of Rosa’s writings on slave resistance\, indispensability for contemporary progressive politics in South Africa\, and turn to the other-than-human world to counteract the political violence of incarceration. \nGunnett Kaaf\, Marxist activist and a writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa; Maria Theresa Starzmann\,  Vera Institute of Justice; Jane Anna Gordon\, University of Connecticut; Robin D.G. Kelley\, UCLA \nThe essays from the new volume are “Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution and the Curious Case of Rosa Luxemburg”\, by Robin D. G. Kelley; “A Political Economy of the Damned: Reading Rosa Luxemburg on Slavery through a Creolizing Lens”\, Jane Anna Gordon; “One Hundred Years of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxism: Imperialism and Lessons in Democracy for the ContemporarySouth African Left”\, Gunnett Kaaf; and\, “Rosa Luxemburg\, Nature\, and Imprisonment”\, Maria Theresia Starzmann \n  \n;
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-3-revolutionary-subjects/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Bolshevism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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