Revolutions Study Group
Events
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg, Session 3—Revolutionary Subjects
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis panel 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.
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: The Mass Strike Past and Present
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe speakers in this fourth session reposition Rosa Luxemburg's analysis in the contexts of the United States Civil War, the Arab Spring, and the twenty-first century migrations northward through the American hemisphere.
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Dual Presentation: Community Restaurants with Benjamin Selwyn / Postcapitalism: Alternatives or Detour?
Online Event - Zoom MeetingCommunity Restaurants: Decommodifying Food as Socialist Strategy with Benjamin Selwyn The 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 ... Read more
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Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Reconsidering Primitive Accumulation
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis 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.
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The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWith 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.
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Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?
$25 – $45 -
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe remaining five sessions of this seminar series explore 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.
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe remaining five sessions of this seminar series explore 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.
$7 – $11 -
Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?
$25 – $45 -
Organizing Insurgency: Workers’ Movements in the Global South
Online Event - Zoom MeetingLooking 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.
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Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe 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.
$7 – $11 -
Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
Online Event - Zoom MeetingWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?
$25 – $45 -
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Re:sources / Re:lations with Working Group on Globalization and Culture
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture will share our collective research on two ubiquitous words of our contemporary vocabulary: resources and relations this coming Sunday, June 6/
THEMATIC CLUSTERS: On Sunday June 6, we will present the two clusters: Source Memory: Relating Archival Contradictions and The Relations of Human Resources.$7 – $18 -
Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements
Online Event - Zoom MeetingCan 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.
$7 – $11