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    Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, with Mitchell Abidor

    Recording available on YouTube

    Join us for a conversation with Mitchell Abidor, author of the forthcoming book, "Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary."
    Today, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history?

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    Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this November 8, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Brian Kwoba's recently published Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism introduces the working-class journalist, ... Read more

  • Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni

    Recording available on YouTube

    Rescheduled to November 16 / In her new book 'Free Gifts,' Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to place value on nature. But the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. Recovering and reinterpreting classical economists' idea of "free gifts of nature," Battistoni builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking.

  • Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III

    A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism.

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    Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Have you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.

  • Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 2 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', which takes up the nature and functioning of capital.

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  • Hegel’s Preface to the ‘Phenomenology’

    (ends on December 13) This eight-session course with Alex Steinberg concludes our ongoing studies of Hegel's mysterious work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will do a close reading of the ... Read more

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    Antonio Gramsci Studies: 2025 Series

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    The continuing 2025 Gramsci Study Sessions will read and explore from: Selections from the Prison Notebooks Selections from Cultural Writings Selections from Political Writings Gramsci’s writings on international politics, as ... Read more

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  • Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally's recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally's book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character ... Read more

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    Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    A five-session study group on nonhuman animals' relationship with capital as living, breathing, "commodified" beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. In this study group, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism.

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    Hegel, Marx, and Capital

    Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants

    Andy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx's use of Hegel's Logic in the writing of Capital.

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