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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210513T200000
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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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SUMMARY:The Hour of the Furnaces: A film screening with discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Hour of the Furnaces\nPart 1: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism and Violence in Argentina\, 1968\, 84 minutes\nDir. Grupo Cine Liberación\nSpanish with English subtitles\nIn 1968\, Grupo Cine Liberación released their powerful documentary and visual essay\, The Hour of the Furnaces. This three-part film analyzes the severe neocolonial situation of 1960s Argentina\, radical wings of Peronism\, and the role of violence in the national liberation process. Part 1\, Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism focuses on the everyday violence of the Argentine\, employing a Marxist analysis between quotes from Martí\, Fanon\, Césaire\, Che\, Mariátegui\, and other revolutionary figures. The usage of avant-garde and mainstream techniques was meant to attack the passivity of the spectator and incite political action. The Hour of the Furnaces remains an essential film of militant cinema. \nThis discussion will go over the Third Cinema movement in Argentina\, the making of Grupo Cine Liberación’s The Hour of the Furnaces\, and it’s international influence. We will watch and analyze chapters from Part 1 and discuss how it relates to the greater context of (neo)colonialism in the Global South. \nGrupo Cine Liberación clandestinely filmed The Hour of the Furnaces in fear of repression by Juan Carlos Onganía’s dictatorship. Because of the subversive nature of the film\, attending the film became an act of resistance and was met with violent confrontation by the military. Members of the group\, filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino later wrote their manifesto\, Towards a Third Cinema\, reflecting on the filmmaking process under the political restraints\, which would later become the theoretical framework for the Third Cinema film movement.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hour-of-the-furnaces-a-film-screening-with-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film Screenings,Revolutions Study Group
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SUMMARY:Reinventing the Welfare State with Ursula Huws (Pluto FireWorks Series)
DESCRIPTION:Ursula Huws speaks with Todd Wolfson on creative ideas for reinventing the welfare state to address contemporary challenges in a session chaired by FireWorks Series editor\, and Editorial Director at Pluto Press\, David Castle. \nWhen faced with standard issue programs to restore the post-war era “good jobs” and welfare state\, long-time organizing activist\, researcher and scholar Ursula Huws comments “…most woke young people who have grown up in the early twenty-first century would\, if transported back to the 1950s\, probably feel themselves to be in a restrictive\, class-bound\, sexist\, racist\, homophobic hell.” This is a jumping off point for Huws new manifesto-like book on Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies. Join Ursula for a detailed online conversation this coming Sunday afternoon February 21 on casual work versus “platform work” under the regime of neo-liberal social policy and global corporations\, the accompanying persistence of racial and gender inequality\, and proposals for what we can do about it. Huws has been a remarkable thinker and engaging speaker on these matters for decades\, and her approach as ever spans national policy as well as the new wave of grassroots struggles. \n \n  \nIn Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public PoliciesUrsula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality\, including a redistributive UBI\, decommodification of platforms and universal workers’ rights. With positivity and rigour\, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century\, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernise and expand public services\, and improve accessibility. \nUrsula Huws is Professor of Labor and Globalization at the University of Hertfordshire. She has been carrying out pioneering research on the economic\, social and gender impacts of technological change\, employment restructuring and the changing international division of labor since the 1970s\, combining scholarship with activism and popular writing. \nTodd Wolfson — Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick\, NJ) and Co-Director of Media\, Inequality & Chance Center (MIC) — researches the intersection of new media and contemporary social movements. Author of Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014)\, Wolfson also co-edited The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017). \nAll events are sliding scale. Have made the presentation and book combination offer a special low price. No one is turned away for inability to pay If you cannot afford to pay\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive the URL for the zoom link to attend this or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reinventing-the-welfare-state-with-ursula-huws-pluto-fireworks-series/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Session 2—Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Alyssa Adamson\, Drucilla Cornell\, and Peter Hudis\nThis second session of the Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series will critically revisit debates over the potential revolutionary value of nationalism through exploring different stages of the Global Southern reception of Rosa’s thoroughgoing internationalism. \nThe panel will consist of Alyssa Adamson of Malcolm X College\, Drucilla Cornell\, Rutgers University and Peter Hudis\, Oakton Community College. Their essays are “Against a Single History\, for a Revaluation of Power: Luxemburg\, James\, and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy” by Alyssa Adamson; “The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination”\, Drucilla Cornell; and\, “A Troubled Legacy: Rosa Luxemburg and the Non-Western World”\, Peter Hudis \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-2-debating-revolutionary-nationalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly with Editor Peter Cole
DESCRIPTION:In the early twentieth century\, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers\, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color\, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. \nA brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator\, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union\, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era\, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. \nFor years\, acclaimed historian Peter Cole has carefully researched the life of Ben Fletcher\, painstakingly uncovering a stunning range of documents related to this extraordinary man. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly is the most comprehensive look at Fletcher ever to be published. It includes a detailed biographical sketch of his life and history\, reminiscences by fellow workers who knew him\, a chronicle of the IWW’s impressive decade-long run on the Philadelphia waterfront in which Fletcher played a pivotal role\, and nearly all of his known writings and speeches\, thus giving Fletcher’s timeless voice another opportunity to inspire a new generation of workers\, organizers\, and agitators. This revised and expanded second edition includes new materials such as facsimile reprints of two extremely rare pamphlets on racism from the early twentieth century\, more information on his prison years and personal life\, additional recollections from friends\, greater consideration of Fletcher from a global perspective\, and much more. \n“This stirring collection gives us the drama\, largely in his own exciting words\, of the life and work of black radical labor leader Ben Fletcher. It is a story of suffering\, fighting\, and organizing but also of thinking deeply and writing clearly about the social power of labor\, and particularly of maritime workers\, and the possibility of a world beyond racial division and class exploitation.”\n—David Roediger\, author of Class\, Race\, and Marxism \nPeter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University (USA) and a research associate in the Society\, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Cole is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. While the first edition of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly was published by Charles H. Kerr Press\, in 2006\, the revised and much expanded second edition has now been published by PM Press. He also is the founder and co-director of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19). \n  \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this event or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ben-fletcher-the-life-and-times-of-a-black-wobbly-with-editor-peter-cole/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Immigration,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210410T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210410T160000
DTSTAMP:20210407T155928Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T155928Z
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SUMMARY:Introducing Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with Drucilla Cornell and Jane Gordon
DESCRIPTION:“I Have A Thousand More Things I Want To Say To You.”\nAn introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with\nDrucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon\, moderated by Bernabe S. Mendoza\nSession One of a six part series.\nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist of the last century. 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 understanding of the complexities of revolution. \nDRUCILLA CORNELL Professor Emeritus\, Rutgers University; JANE ANNA GORDON\, University of Connecticut \nSessions Moderator: BERNABE S. MENDOZA\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Rutgers University
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introducing-creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-with-drucilla-cornell-and-jane-gordon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210329T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210329T150000
DTSTAMP:20201111T171311Z
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210322T150000
DTSTAMP:20201111T171311Z
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210320T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210320T153000
DTSTAMP:20210213T005633Z
CREATED:20210211T130259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T005633Z
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SUMMARY:Marx and Emancipatory Political Theory
DESCRIPTION:MARX\, ENGELS\, MARXISMS SERIES\npresentations and discussion with authors\nGeorge Comninel\, August Nimtz and Igor Shoikhedbrod\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 \n \nGeorge Comninel’s Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx considers Marx’s ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote. It emphasizes both the continuity of his commitment to the cause of full human emancipation\, and the role of his critique of political economy in conceiving history to be the history of class struggles. \nIn Marxism versus Liberalism\, August Nimtz presents a comparative real-time political analysis\,  providing convincing evidence to sustain two similarly audacious claims: firstly\, that Karl Marx and Frederick Engels collectively had better democratic credentials than Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill; and secondly\, that Vladimir Lenin had better democratic credentials than Max Weber and Woodrow Wilson. \nIn Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism\, Igor Shoikhedbrod offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s new materialist understanding of justice\, legality\, and rights through the vantage point of his widely invoked but generally misunderstood critique of liberalism. The book begins by reconstructing Marx’s conception of justice and rights through close textual interpretation and extrapolation. A central thesis of the book is that Marx regards justice as an essential feature of any society\, including the emancipated society of the future. \nGEORGE COMNINEL is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics at York University\, Canada. He is also the author of Rethinking the French Revolution: Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge (1987). \nAUGUST NIMTZ is Professor is Professor of Political Science and African American and African Studies and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota\, USA. He is also the author of Marx\, Tocqueville\, and Race in America: The ‘Absolute Democracy’ or ‘Defiled Republic’ (2003). \nIGOR SHOIKHEDBROD received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto\, Canada. He is currently adjunct professor in the Ethics\, Society & Law Program at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale: No one turned away for inability to pay. (If you cannot pay full amount\, please email to info@marxedproject.org for obtaining codes to participate.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-emancipatory-political-theory/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T200000
DTSTAMP:20210319T173858Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T173858Z
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SUMMARY:The Last Years of Karl Marx: A new reading group
DESCRIPTION:An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto\nan eight-week reading and discussion group with The Capital Studies Group of The MEP \nIn the last years of his life\, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries\, analyzing communal forms of ownership in pre-capitalist societies\, supporting the populist movement in Russia\, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883\, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx’s life\, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life\, and that he was a Eurocentric and economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. \nWith The Last Years of Karl Marx\, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx\, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings\, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism\, his ideas on non-Western societies\, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in non-capitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts\, notebooks\, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. \nMARCELLO MUSTO is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. His most recent books are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and\, as editor\, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations (2020). \nAll events and classes at The MEP are sliding scale. In addition\, no one is every denied participation because of inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute to offset our costs at this time\, please write to info@marxedproject to receive codes for entrance to this session or any other activity you would like to attend. \nThe special book and class offers are for US and Puerto Rico only as the books are sent via Media Mail with the US Post Office.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-years-of-karl-marx-a-five-week-reading-group/2021-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T150000
DTSTAMP:20201111T171311Z
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210311T210000
DTSTAMP:20210312T210306Z
CREATED:20201214T175355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210312T210306Z
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SUMMARY:M.A.D. Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:The year 1953 was like most of the years following the end of the slaughter of World War II. It was another year of the baby boom that filled maternity wards in the United States\, a generation that ironically couldn’t wait to leave these suburbs. The Cold War was well under way\, and anti-communism in the U.S. was at its peak. Politicians pontificated that it was “better to be dead than Red.” In the East and the West\, the military apparatus stockpiled nuclear weapons capable of ending life on this planet thousands of times over — Mutually Assured Destruction. \nWe began this reading group with Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” followed by a shared reading of Allen Ginsburg’s Howl\, and have nowcompleted our discussion of Ring Lardner\, Jr.’s The Ecstasy of Owen Muir. We have just started The Public Burning by Robert Coover\, after which we will read and discuss Richard Wright’s The Outsider. Coover’s novel is a political economy of the US as the hegemon of Post World War II capital global restructuring and the shift of much production to energy\, the military and finance and the attempted thorough destruction of any semblance of a left opposition. \nWhat can we learn from these literary renderings and how do they help us understand the perilous period in history that we now find ourselves living? \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has rcompleted readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years which was followed by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the depression of the 1930s\, and novels on migration\,border politics and labor organizing and our most recent session on Women Who Wrote Against Fascism\, and this summer will the group will host a 5th consecutive Noir Summer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/m-a-d-lit-101-american-fiction-and-the-cold-war/2021-03-11/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T200000
DTSTAMP:20210319T173858Z
CREATED:20210103T192142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T173858Z
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SUMMARY:The Last Years of Karl Marx: A new reading group
DESCRIPTION:An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto\nan eight-week reading and discussion group with The Capital Studies Group of The MEP \nIn the last years of his life\, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries\, analyzing communal forms of ownership in pre-capitalist societies\, supporting the populist movement in Russia\, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883\, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx’s life\, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life\, and that he was a Eurocentric and economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone. \nWith The Last Years of Karl Marx\, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx\, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings\, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism\, his ideas on non-Western societies\, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in non-capitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts\, notebooks\, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. \nMARCELLO MUSTO is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. His most recent books are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (2018) and\, as editor\, The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations (2020). \nAll events and classes at The MEP are sliding scale. In addition\, no one is every denied participation because of inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute to offset our costs at this time\, please write to info@marxedproject to receive codes for entrance to this session or any other activity you would like to attend. \nThe special book and class offers are for US and Puerto Rico only as the books are sent via Media Mail with the US Post Office.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-years-of-karl-marx-a-five-week-reading-group/2021-03-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T150000
DTSTAMP:20201111T171311Z
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T163000
DTSTAMP:20210220T043714Z
CREATED:20210112T145200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T043714Z
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Pluto FireWorks series book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State\nBy Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani\, Kerem Nisancioglu\, Kojo Koram\, Dalia Gebrial\, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha\nCo-authors Gargi Bhattacharyya et al. highlight how the lens of racism and the politics of race offer the sharpest focus to explain why movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with rising authoritarian regimes\,. \nChaired by FireWorks Series editor\, Wilf Sullivan (Race Equality Officer\, Trades Union Congress\, London). \nIn this moment of profound overlapping crises\, the landscape of politics and entitlement is rapidly remade. Several leading scholars powerfully intervene in debates on racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the ‘hostile environment’ policy and Brexit referendum throw the centrality of race into sharp relief\, discussions of racism have too often focus on individual behaviours. Bringing to the fore broad political and economic contexts\, the authors trace ways in which empire’s legacies have been reshaped by global capitalism\, the digital environment and instability in the nation-state. Engaging with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements\, Empire’s Endgame offers an original perspective on race\, media\, the state and criminalisation\, and a political vision that includes — rather than expels — in the face of crisis. \nThis is the fourth in the Pluto Press FireWorks series. \nAttend the talk and receive the book (shipping included—US and Puerto Rico only) \nThis is sliding scale\, We do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject to receive the url for attending by zoom if at this point you are unable to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-pluto-fireworks-series-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T163000
DTSTAMP:20210220T051103Z
CREATED:20210220T043201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T051103Z
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame with Gargi Bhattacharyya and co-authors including Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani and others
DESCRIPTION:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State \nby Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani\, Kerem Nisancioglu\, Kojo Koram\, Dalia Gebrial\, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha \nModerated by Wilf Sullivan (Race Equality Officer\, Trades Union Congress\, London) \nEngaging with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements\, Empire’s Endgame offers an original perspective on race\, media\, the state and criminalization\, and a political vision that includes — rather than expels — in the face of crisis. \n \nIn this moment of profound overlapping crises\, the landscape of politics and entitlement is rapidly remade. Several leading scholars powerfully intervene in debates on racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the ‘hostile environment’ policy and Brexit referendum throw the centrality of race into sharp relief\, discussions of racism have too often focus on individual behaviours. Bringing to the fore broad political and economic contextss\, the authors trace ways in which empire’s legacies have been reshaped by global capitalism\, the digital environment and instability in the nation-state. \nGargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism(2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University(2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017). Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha are co-authors too. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive the URL for the zoom link for this or any other event or class you would like to be a part of.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-with-gargi-bhattacharyya-and-co-authors-including-adam-elliott-cooper-sita-balani-and-others/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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