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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Permaculture with Terry Leahy
DESCRIPTION:‘What is permaculture?’ \nIf you have just heard of the movement and do not know much about it\, you might well think that permaculture is about food growing and gardens. But if you have asked a permaculture afficionado you will have been told that that conception is a mistake. In fact\, there are a variety of different ways of defining permaculture. As a sustainable system of agriculture based on tree crops\, as a system of sustainable agriculture and settlement design\, as a design philosophy for a sustainable society. There is much to be gained from exploring these different conceptions in detail. Those are questions about the foundation of permaculture in ideas. But it is also important to explain permaculture as a social movement\, a body of people\, their actions and the ways that they think about the world. \nPermaculture is an environmental movement that makes us reevaluate what it means to be sustainable. Through innovative agriculture and settlement design\, the movement creates new communities that are harmonious with nature. It has grown from humble origins on a farm in 1970s Australia and flourished into a worldwide movement that confronts industrial capitalism. \nThe Politics of Permaculture is one of the first books to unpack the theory and practice of this social movement that looks to challenge the status quo. Drawing upon the rich seam of publications and online communities from the movement as well as extensive interviews with permaculture practitioners and organisations from around the world\, Leahy explains the ways permaculture is understood and practiced in different contexts. In the face of extreme environmental degradation and catastrophic climate change\, we urgently need a new way of living. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nTERRY LEAHY has been involved in the permaculture movement since its founding in 1978. He has lectured in universities since 1973 and retired at the end of 2016. His recent book\, Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First (Routledge\, 2018)\, outlines a permaculture strategy for Africa and shows how projects can be designed to make this work in practice. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-permaculture-with-terry-leahy/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Food and politics,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of Detroit
DESCRIPTION:with authors Mark Jay and Philip Conklin\n \nRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile\, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services\, water shutoffs\, mass foreclosures\, and violent police raids. In A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit’s history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism’s mandates. \n“Jay and Conklin work backward before working forward. The authors first offer a people’s history of Detroit’s present\, subverting chronology to read the resurgence narrative of Detroit against the grain and reveal the erasure of Black Detroit via the myth of Detroit’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’30s\, ’40s\, and ’50s. This allows them\, and therefore us\, to understand the systemic problems facing contemporary Detroit first\, and then uncover their prehistory second\, instead of the other way around.” — Hannah Zeavin\, Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/hannah-zeavin/ \n\n\n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\,A People’s History of Detroitimagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\, Public Books \n\nMark Jay received his PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara.\nPhilip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nThey are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery. \n  \n  \nBOOKS AVAILABLE\nDUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Book Special Redux! Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to offer Andy Merrifield’s 2020 book\, Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times with a total price of $12.50 including shipping.\n“This enchanting portrait of Marx at work\, with his legendary overcoat and shuffling ways\, is brilliant\,\ninformative\, and beautifully written. Merrifield then puts the insights he derives from reconnecting with\nMarx’s writing to work to illuminate everything from the writings of Gogol and Dickens to the\narchitectural disaster of New York’s Hudson Yards.”\n— David Harvey\, author\, A Companion to Marx’s Capital and Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-special-marx-dead-and-alive-reading-capital-in-precarious-times-with-shipping/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211218T160000
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy\, Ecology and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Himani Bannerji\, Michael Brie\, Gregory Claeys\, and Silvia Federici with editor Marcello Musto\n \nThis book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of 20th century Marxism. The dual aim of this collective volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion on Marx’s critique of political economy and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions\, like ecology and migration\, to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. \nContributions of globally renowned scholars\, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines\, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology\, migration\, gender\, the capitalist mode of production\, the labour movement\, globalization\, social relations\, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative. \nOrder the book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81764-0 \nThis event is sponsored by the Marxist Education Project\, Shelter & Solidarity\, The Community Church of Boston\, Encuentro5\, Hardball Press\, and Socialism & Democracy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/rethinking-alternatives-with-marx-economy-ecology-and-migration/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Migration,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211212T103000
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SUMMARY:Disputing the Deluge with Darko Suvin joined by Editor Hugh O’Connell and special guests
DESCRIPTION:Collected 21st-Century Writings on Utopia\, Narration\, and Survival by DARKO SUVIN\nwith Editor HUGH O’CONNELL\nwith guests Marc Angenot\, Gerry Canavan\, Patricia McManus\, & Eric D. Smith\n“Everything in here is of note\, from the essays early in this century on fascism and on fantasy to the most recent pieces on the enduring importance of communism; the growing danger of anti-utopian discourse; and especially the totalizing environmental\, economic\, political\, and cultural terror and destruction brought on by the systemic operations of the Capitalocene.” —Tom Moylan\, Glucksman Professor Emeritus at the University of Limerick\, Ireland\, and author of Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Bloomsbury\, 2020) \nFor over 50 years\, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of science fiction to utopian studies\, formalist and leftist critical theory\, and his broader engagement with what he terms “political epistemology.” Disputing the Deluge joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin’s work on science fiction and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 29 of Suvin’s most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century\, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O’Connell and a new preface by the author. \nBeginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy\, the essays collected here—each a brilliant example of engaged thought—highlight the value of science fiction for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin’s interrogations show how speculative fiction has responded to 9/11\, the global war on terror\, the 2008economic collapse\, and the rise of conservative populism\, along with contemporary critical utopian analyses of the Capitalocene\, the climate crisis\,COVID19\, and the decline of democracy. By bringing together Suvin’s essays  all in one place\, this collection allows new generations of students and scholars to engage directly with his work and its continuing importance and timeliness. \nDarko Suvin is Emeritus Professor of English at McGill University\, Canada\, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences\, since 1986. Darko has authored 25 books\, including the foundational study in science fiction Metamorphoses  of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre(1979\, 2016)\, Victorian Science Fiction in the U. K.: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power (1983)\, Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988)\, and In Leviathan’s Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time (2012). \nHugh C. O’Connell is Assistant Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Boston\, USA. He is editor of Legacies of Blade Runner\, special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television (2020; with Sarah Hamblin); Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction\, and a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review (2019; with David M. Higgins). \nMarc Angenot\, FRSC\, a professor in McGill’s French Language and Literature Department for over forty years\, has been awarded the Prix du Québec Léon-Gérin for his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. He is world-renowned for his research and is widely considered the founder of Social Discourse Theory. His vast body of work encompasses intellectual history\, linguistics\, politics\, semiotics\, rhetoric and informal logic\, as well as literary theory. Among his critically acclaimed works are Le Marxisme dans les grands récits (Paris\, 2005) and Dialogues de sourds (Paris\, 2008). In 2004\, The Yale Journal of Criticism published a special issue titled “Marc Angenot and the Scandals of History”.  Gerry Canavan is co-editor of special issues of American Literature and Polygraph on “speculative fiction” and “ecology and ideology\,” respectively and has edited (with Kim Stanley Robinson) the critical anthology\, Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction\, 2014 and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (co-edited with Eric Carl Link\, 2015. Dr\, Patricia McManus is a senior lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Brighton. She is the founder of the Dystopia Project. Her research interests are the novel —in particular the problems involved in understanding genre as a productive force in literary history — and Marxism as a methodology for utopianism. Eric D. Smith. is professor of modern and contemporary British and Anglophone literature at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Globalization\, Utopia\, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (Pagrave\, 2012) and editor of Darko Suvin’s career-spanning collection Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism in the Ralahine Utopian Studies Series (Peter Lang\, 2021).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/disputing-the-deluge-with-darko-suvin-joined-by-editor-hugh-oconnell-and-special-guests/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fantasy Fiction,Food and politics,Literary Studies,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Technology,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Ecosocialism in the Shadow of Covid
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week online study (2 weeks remain—recordings of earlier sessions are available to new attendees)\nConvened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nJoin The Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group as we convene online this fall to consider new works on the political economy of global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic. We will read and discuss three books: The Corona Crash (Verso)\, by Grace Blakeley\, details how the pandemic is ushering in a new era in which the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state\, and behemoths like Amazon and Netflix balloon in profit and power. White Skin\, Black Fuel (Verso)\, by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective\, takes a comprehensive look at how extreme-right currents are responding to ecological crises with with authoritarian and xenophobic proposals while remaining ardent supporters of fossil capital – black fuels to support white supremacy. And A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto)\, by Max Ajl\, engages critically with various Green New Deal proposals and sketches out a radical alternative committed to degrowth\, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led study groups at The MEP on ecosocialism\, the history of capitalism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of The MEP ecosocialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist and is active with faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on ecosocialism for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ecosocialism-in-the-shadow-of-covid/2021-11-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Covid and Capital,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211120T130000
DTSTAMP:20211128T142813Z
CREATED:20210717T153545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211128T142813Z
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse: The Chapter on Money (The first two notebooks)
DESCRIPTION:“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse  \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on November 6\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse-the-chapter-on-money-the-first-two-notebooks/2021-11-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,Grundrisse,historical materialism,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211115T143000
DTSTAMP:20211115T032415Z
CREATED:20210707T153406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211115T032415Z
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SUMMARY:Ecosocialism in the Shadow of Covid
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week online study (2 weeks remain—recordings of earlier sessions are available to new attendees)\nConvened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nJoin The Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group as we convene online this fall to consider new works on the political economy of global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic. We will read and discuss three books: The Corona Crash (Verso)\, by Grace Blakeley\, details how the pandemic is ushering in a new era in which the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state\, and behemoths like Amazon and Netflix balloon in profit and power. White Skin\, Black Fuel (Verso)\, by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective\, takes a comprehensive look at how extreme-right currents are responding to ecological crises with with authoritarian and xenophobic proposals while remaining ardent supporters of fossil capital – black fuels to support white supremacy. And A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto)\, by Max Ajl\, engages critically with various Green New Deal proposals and sketches out a radical alternative committed to degrowth\, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led study groups at The MEP on ecosocialism\, the history of capitalism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of The MEP ecosocialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist and is active with faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on ecosocialism for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ecosocialism-in-the-shadow-of-covid/2021-11-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Covid and Capital,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ecosocialist Study Group":MAILTO:nymarxedproject@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211114T133000
DTSTAMP:20211017T182902Z
CREATED:20210720T212724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T182902Z
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SUMMARY:Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
DESCRIPTION:A Cultural Politics Series\nAntonio Gramsci is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. 4 more sessions of this seminar continue a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, delving into key themes related to civil society\, the state\, hegemony\, subaltern studies\, cultural analysis\, race\, class and gender studies\, film studies\, linguistics\, and critical theory. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. \n  \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/studies-in-the-works-of-antonio-gramsci-with-piruz-alemi/2021-11-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Fordism,Hegemony,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor Organizing,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211107T133000
DTSTAMP:20211017T182902Z
CREATED:20210720T212724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T182902Z
UID:10006985-1636286400-1636291800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
DESCRIPTION:A Cultural Politics Series\nAntonio Gramsci is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. 4 more sessions of this seminar continue a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, delving into key themes related to civil society\, the state\, hegemony\, subaltern studies\, cultural analysis\, race\, class and gender studies\, film studies\, linguistics\, and critical theory. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. \n  \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/studies-in-the-works-of-antonio-gramsci-with-piruz-alemi/2021-11-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Fordism,Hegemony,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor Organizing,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211031T133000
DTSTAMP:20211017T182902Z
CREATED:20210720T212724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T182902Z
UID:10006984-1635681600-1635687000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Studies in the Works of Antonio Gramsci with Piruz Alemi
DESCRIPTION:A Cultural Politics Series\nAntonio Gramsci is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. 4 more sessions of this seminar continue a close reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, delving into key themes related to civil society\, the state\, hegemony\, subaltern studies\, cultural analysis\, race\, class and gender studies\, film studies\, linguistics\, and critical theory. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will look to connect cultures and their human rights struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. This seminar is accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. \n  \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/studies-in-the-works-of-antonio-gramsci-with-piruz-alemi/2021-10-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-fascism,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Fordism,Hegemony,Insurgency,Italian history,Labor Organizing,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211030T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211030T160000
DTSTAMP:20210924T154804Z
CREATED:20210924T154804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210924T154804Z
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SUMMARY:Clipped Coins and Civilizing Money: George Caffentzis on John Locke and David Hume
DESCRIPTION:Clipped Coins\, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money\nand Civilizing Money: Hume\, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment\na presentation with author George Caffentzis\njoined by Peter Linebaugh and Carl Wennerlind\nClipped Coins situates John Locke’s philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century. Anchored in extensive archival research\, George Caffentzis offers the most expansive reading of Locke’s economic thought to date\, contextualizing it within expanding capitalist accumulation on a world scale money becoming the universal medium of exchange. Updated with a new introduction by Paul Rekret\, a new foreword by Harry Cleaver and new material by the author\, Clipped Coins\, Abused Words\, and Civil Government continues to make a significant intervention in contemporary debates around the history of capitalism\, colonialism and philosophy. \nGeorge Caffentzis makes both an intervention in the field of monetary philosophy and into Marxist conceptions of the relation between philosophy and capitalist development. He vividly charts the ways in which Hume’s philosophy directly informed the project of ‘civilizing’ the people of the Scottish Highlands and pacifying the English proletariat in response to the revolts of both groups at the heart of the empire. Built on careful historical and philosophical detective work\, Civilizing Money offers a stimulating and radical political reading of the ways in which Hume’s fundamental philosophical claims performed concrete political functions. \nGEORGE CAFFENTZIS is a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA). Caffentzis was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine for over 30 years before retirement. \nPETER LINEBAUGH is a child of empire\, schooled in London\, Cattaraugus (NY)\, Washington\, D.C.\, Bonn\, and Karachi. He went to Swarthmore College during the civil rights days. Besides authoring many books\, he has taught at Harvard University and Attica Penitentiary\, at New York University and the Federal Penitentiary in Marion\, Illinois. He used to edit Zerowork and was a member of the Midnight Notes Collective. \nCARL WENNERLIND is professor of history at Barnard College\, Columbia University and the author of Casualties  of Credit. Carl has also co-authored a monograph with Margaret Schabas entitled A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the  Rise of Capitalism. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/clipped-coins-and-civilizing-money-george-caffentzis-on-john-locke-and-david-hume/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Hegemony,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Working Class History
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20211016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20211016T180000
DTSTAMP:20211001T005058Z
CREATED:20210726T011229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T005058Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital
DESCRIPTION:with Mary Boger\nVolume I of Capital is just the beginning of unraveling the underlying laws of capitalist development. In Volume I Marx demystifies “the commodity” by identifying the real sources of the production of wealth\, namely\, the human subject through our labor and nature. Capital subsumes these as commodities which are consumed within the process of production. After solving the form that the production of wealth takes within a society where generalized commodity production prevails under the domination of capital\, Marx takes on the next big question. How the hell can reproduction of society as a whole take place when there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met and in the necessary proportions such that a continuous reproduction of the conditions of life can take place and reproduce the capitalist relations of production? In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, we discover the solution to this problem while new internal contradictions and instabilities at a societal level inherent to this mode of production are explained. The ground is then laid in combining the laws of motion peculiar to capitalism uncovered in the first two Volumes—The Process of Capitalist Production and The Process of the Circulation of Capital—to the analysis of the third Volume\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \n \nWe will begin our study of Volume II study by situating this volume in relation to the historical process of development of capitalist society which is premised on its specific social form of societal re-production\, the production of capital. To do so we will study the closing sections of the Penguin edition of Volume I\, specifically\, Part VIII: “So-called Primitive Accumulation” and the “Appendix: Results of the Immediate Process of Production”. \nJoin us as we journey through this movement from the imaginary concrete to the abstract concrete to the real concrete. Come and challenge your way of thinking and understanding the world as it appears to you and begin to identify some of what needs to be overcome and done to bring about a better world. \nMARY BOGER\, an ethnographic researcher\, has been teaching Capital since the first School for Marxist Education opened in 1975. Her major concerns are centrality of labor\, shifts in the global working class\, advancing international solidarity that can challenge the prerogatives of globalized capital and begin to shift our resources and activities towards remediation of nature and reclamation of our human species capacities. Mary has an MA in Economics\, PhD in Sociology (A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians under Israeli Citizenship). \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-book-ii-the-process-of-circulation-of-capital/2021-10-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210823T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210823T180000
DTSTAMP:20210825T150253Z
CREATED:20210728T025147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210825T150253Z
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SUMMARY:Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation\, Work and Changes in the Labor Process
DESCRIPTION:A 6 Week Close-Reading and Discussion series \nConducted with the Capital Studies Group\nIn the Introduction to Augmented Exploitation\, co-editors Phoebe Moore and Jamie Woodcock point up two main problems with how automation and artificial intelligence are being discussed as the end of the first quarter of the 21st century draws near. Number one is the claim that Al is changing the labor process in new and unprecedented ways. But capitalists have always introduced machines in order to increase the amount of what each worker can produce in a given period of time. This is where the second problem comes in—either a certain process will be automated\, or it will not—a binary that focuses on machines and not on the workers who operate them. Rather than the prospects of automation and interpretive learning replacing workers\, we need rather to see that these are augmentations of the labor process. \n  \nAugmented Exploitation is divided into three areas: Making It\, Faking It\, and Breaking It. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and Al-augmented apps that collect data about workers and consumers in innovative ways\, but also to to keep wages and worker representation under control. The contributors to Augmented Exploitation show that workers are not taking these dramatic changes lying down; they present case studies of new and exciting forms of resistance that are springing up across the globe. Join us to learn more of the reality of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (Al) on workers’ lives. \nDuring these six sessions we will also review several articles from this year’s Socialist Register\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living. In particular\, we will discuss “The Time of Our Lives”\, Bryan Palmer’s essay on capital and temporality\, and Larry Lohmann’s essay on “Interpretive Learning”. Time\, always a frontier of class struggle\, pushed by automation and other digital management controls that are ever-present today\, is now at the forefront of contentious labor-capital relations. Lohmann stresses a number of challenges that interpretation machines have presented to movement organizing and in response argues that it is important to understand the continuities between industrial-era and digital-era value-creation rather than to only focus on the differences. He also emphasizes that the contradiction between living and dead labor that Marx identified not only persists in today’s digital economy\, but also remains fundamental both to understanding crisis and to identifying possibilities for radical political change. \n The CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for more than four years. There are now several groups studying the two volumes of Capital along with an active Grundrisse reading group. We are students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated ourselves to facilitating broad study of current issues of life and work during this late globalized stage of capitalist development in addition to the work we continue to do around Karl Marx’s Capital. \nFor residents of the US and Puerto Rico\, when you purchase the book along with registering for the class there is a $10 savings. This price includes shipping via USPS Media Mail. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/augmented-exploitation-artificial-intelligence-automation-work-and-changes-in-the-labor-process/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Fordism,Globalization,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210724T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210724T133000
DTSTAMP:20210614T173936Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210614T173936Z
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-07-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210717T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210717T133000
DTSTAMP:20210614T173936Z
CREATED:20210328T214553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210614T173936Z
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-07-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210710T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210710T160000
DTSTAMP:20210525T215243Z
CREATED:20210525T171553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210525T215243Z
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Inquiry into the Birth of Capitalism: Why Does It Matter?
DESCRIPTION:with John Milios\n“In themselves\, money and commodities are no more capital than are the means of production and subsistence. They need to be transformed into capital.”    —Karl Marx\, Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume 1\, Chapter 26\nSince Adam Smith\, political economists\, historians and other social scientists have offered various explanations about the beginnings of capitalism as a mode of production. Their different conclusions imply very different ideas about what capitalism is. In The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System (Routledge paperback\, 2019)\, author John Milios delves deeply into the historical circumstances that turned money and commodities into capital on a systemic scale. In doing so\, he develops theoretical insights into the nature of capitalism as a system of class domination that has swept away all previously existing social relations throughout the world. \nAs Marx argues\, “original accumulation” of capital\, the transformation of pre-capitalist to capitalist social relations\, is not explained by the fairy tale of wise and thrifty household producers getting wealthy by their own labor. John Milios’ research into the “pre-capitalist money owner”\, the role of commodity production (as opposed to production for direct consumption) based on slave labor in the ancient world\, and the development of ”contractual money begetting” production in Europe in the middle ages\, helps us understand what is and is not capitalism. He critically analyzes both Marxist and non-Marxist literature. He uses the rise and fall of the Venetian mercantile republic as a case study. He concludes that “No version of capitalism is the realm of … freedom or justice. Capitalism is a social system in which … coercion guaranteeing economic exploitation of the ruled by the rulers is incorporated into the economic relation itself.” \nJOHN MILIOS is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)\, Greece. He has authored more than two hundred papers published or forthcoming in refereed journals (in Greek\, English\, German\, French\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, Italian\, Chinese and Turkish) including the Cambridge Journal of Economics\, History of Political Economy\, History of Economics Review\, Review of Political Economy\, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought\, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology\, Science & Society\, Rethinking Marxism\, Review of Radical Political Economics\, and has participated as invited speaker in numerous international conferences. He has also authored or co-authored some eighteen scholarly books. His most recent books in English are A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis: Demystifying Finance (Routledge 2013\, Paperback Edition 2014\, co-authored with D. P. Sotiropoulos and S. Lapatsioras) and The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter (Routledge 2018). He is director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Thesseis (published since 1982 in Greek) and serves on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-inquiry-into-the-birth-of-capitalism-why-does-it-matter/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,historical materialism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-07-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-07-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210626T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210626T173000
DTSTAMP:20210418T212500Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210418T212500Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nVolume I: The Process of Production of Capital\nThird Session Covering Chapter 16 thru Chapter 25\nwith Mary Boger \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental processes that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life and what we produce have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Marx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, in Session I\, our first task was to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form\, the beginning of the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nThe first four Parts of Volume I revealed the historical process of development that led to industrial capital\, the productive base/infrastructure required for the generalization of the capitalist production of commodities as the dominate social form throughout all our societies and nations today. Session 3\, Chapters 15 through 25\, will trace this development and reveals new dynamics and contradictions inherent to the logic of capitalist accumulation\, culminating in Chapter 25\, The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. These developmental processes continue to be played out to this day and are witnessed in the immensity of wealth for a few at one pole of humanity\, poverty at another\, ruthless misuse and degradation of nature\, and reduction of the human subject\, the producing masses of real individuals\, to an alienated object for capitalist exploitation. Volume I is essential to understanding the analysis as it is carried out in Volumes II & III. \nNEW STUDENTS: (Please Note) Part I through Four of Volume I lay out the most fundamental concepts and laws of capitalist development and its internal contradictions that are necessary to fully understand all that follows as Marx explicates the dynamics particular to the historical process and dynamics of the production of social life that we are engaged in reproducing in our everyday life\, where the logic of re-production is based on money making more money. The First and Second 12 Week Sessions covering Part I through Part IV have been recorded. They are available to be viewed through the MEP’s Vimeo. Upon registering\, these sessions will be made available\, and I recommend listening to as much as possible\, especially where Chapter 1 begins in in the fourth class of Session 1. \nMary Boger\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of the MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout these four and half decades. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to participate but cannot afford the stated fees or any fee at all\, please write to info@marxedproject.org for information on how to participate.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-part-3/2021-06-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210626T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210626T133000
DTSTAMP:20210614T173936Z
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-06-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210627T023901Z
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles\, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation\, mass production\, gender\, affective and reproductive labour\, syndicalism and independent unions\, and labour and Leftist social and political movements\, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A wildcat strike is a strike action undertaken by unionised workers without union leadership’s authorisation\, support\, or approval”. These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles\, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation\, mass production\, gender\, affective and reproductive labour\, syndicalism and independent unions\, and labour and Leftist social and political movements\, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. \nSeries editors: Immanuel Ness (City University of New York) // Peter Cole (Western Illinois University) // Raquel Varela (New University of Lisbon) // Tim Pringle (University of London). \nDescriptions of each book\, along with the biographical information for the presenters are on the site at the individual event descriptions by sequential date. \nTHE COST OF FREE SHIPPING: Amazon in the Global Economy THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nJake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\nORGANIZING INSURGENCY: Workers Movements in the Global South THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nManny Ness\nAMAKOMITI: Grassroots Democracy in South Africa’s Shack Settlements THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nauthor Trevor Ngwane with Luke Sinwell\nWORKERS’ INQUIRY AND GLOBAL CLASS STRUGGLE: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives THIS MEETING HAS PASSED.\nEdited by Robert Ovetz joined by Gifford Hartman\nAUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work\nPhoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nFriday\, June 25th • 4:00 to 6:00 pm US DST\, 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm UK\nWOBBLIES OF THE WORLD: A Global History of the Industrial Workers of the World\nEdited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers\, Kenyon Zimmer\nWednesday\, July 14 • 5:00 to 7:00 pm US DST\, 9:00 to 11:00 pm GMT\, 10:30 pm to 12:30 am UK\nThe series tickets are on a sliding scale basis. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for access to these or any other events and/or classes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pluto-wildcat-series-from-workers-at-amazon-to-wobblies-of-the-world-may-11-through-july-14/2021-06-25/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Socialism,Syndicalism,Workers’ Inquiry
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210625T180000
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SUMMARY:AUGMENTED EXPLOITATION: Artificial Intelligence\, Automation and Work
DESCRIPTION:with editors Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\nand three working guests who work at jobs being altered by the Interpretation Machines of Artificial Intelligence\nAugmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on workers’ lives. Going beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilize innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers\, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. \nGoing beyond platform work and the gig economy\, the authors explore emerging forms of algorithmic governance and AI-augmented apps that have been developed to utilise innovative ways to collect data about workers and consumers\, as well as to keep wages and worker representation under control. They also show that workers are not taking this lying down\, providing case studies of new and exciting form of resistance that are springing up across the globe. \nPHOEBE V. MOORE is Assoc Professor of the Futures of Work based at the University of Leicester School of Business and a Research Fellow at the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). Her most recent book is The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work\, Technology and What Counts (Routledge\, 2018). JAMIE WOODCOCK is a researcher based in London. He is the author of The Gig Economy (Polity Press\, 2019)\, Marx at the Arcade (Haymarket\, 2019)\, and Working The Phones (Pluto\, 2016). His research focuses on labor\, work\, the gig economy\, platforms\, resistance\, organizing\, and videogames. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied attendance because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to receive the url for access to this or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/augmented-exploitation-artificial-intelligence-automation-and-work/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Globalization,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210619T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210619T173000
DTSTAMP:20210418T212500Z
CREATED:20210319T061207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210418T212500Z
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SUMMARY:Capital\, Volume 1\, Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Capital\, A Critique of Political Economy\, Karl Marx\nVolume I: The Process of Production of Capital\nThird Session Covering Chapter 16 thru Chapter 25\nwith Mary Boger \nVolume I of Capital begins the scientific presentation of the laws of motion that underlie the developmental processes that has led to the realities of our contemporary human condition. In only 200-300 years capitalist relations of re/production have absorbed all pre-capitalist societies into its circulation of commodities making all that exists\, whether real or imaginary\, means for investing money to make more money. Private ownership and control over our earth’s natural resources by the owners of capital and separation of the world’s population from any direct access to our conditions of life and what we produce have reduced our human productive activity to a thing that is bought and sold at the bidding of capital. \nUncovering the how\, what and for whom our life processes are determined based on the logic of using money in order to make more money is a journey we need to take if we are to consciously situate ourselves within our given historical process as effective political/social/universal actors. Marx’s scientific presentation of the laws of motion of capitalist development begins by analyzing the fundamental or elemental form which wealth takes in our society\, the commodity. Understanding this form leads us to the most basic law that grounds social reproduction in societies under the domination of capital\, the law of value. Therefore\, in Session I\, our first task was to break through the appearance and reveal the social content of the commodity form\, the beginning of the unraveling of the why and how of what we necessarily\, under the domination and exploitation of capital\, experience every day in our lives. \nThe first four Parts of Volume I revealed the historical process of development that led to industrial capital\, the productive base/infrastructure required for the generalization of the capitalist production of commodities as the dominate social form throughout all our societies and nations today. Session 3\, Chapters 15 through 25\, will trace this development and reveals new dynamics and contradictions inherent to the logic of capitalist accumulation\, culminating in Chapter 25\, The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation. These developmental processes continue to be played out to this day and are witnessed in the immensity of wealth for a few at one pole of humanity\, poverty at another\, ruthless misuse and degradation of nature\, and reduction of the human subject\, the producing masses of real individuals\, to an alienated object for capitalist exploitation. Volume I is essential to understanding the analysis as it is carried out in Volumes II & III. \nNEW STUDENTS: (Please Note) Part I through Four of Volume I lay out the most fundamental concepts and laws of capitalist development and its internal contradictions that are necessary to fully understand all that follows as Marx explicates the dynamics particular to the historical process and dynamics of the production of social life that we are engaged in reproducing in our everyday life\, where the logic of re-production is based on money making more money. The First and Second 12 Week Sessions covering Part I through Part IV have been recorded. They are available to be viewed through the MEP’s Vimeo. Upon registering\, these sessions will be made available\, and I recommend listening to as much as possible\, especially where Chapter 1 begins in in the fourth class of Session 1. \nMary Boger\, political economist (MA) sociologist (PhD)\, and ethnographic researcher. MA Thesis: Marx on the Fetishism of Commodities. Dissertation: A Ghetto State of Ghettos: Palestinians Under Israeli Citizenship. A member of the original founders of the first School for Marxist Education (1975) and its continuation as the New York Marxist School/Brecht Forum (1979-2014) and Mary is now engaged with the work of the MEP. She has been teaching Capital for many years to students of all ages and diverse occupations\, backgrounds and countries of origin. Throughout these four and half decades. Mary has actively participated in movement struggles and solidarity work with a broad range of liberation struggles. \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you would like to participate but cannot afford the stated fees or any fee at all\, please write to info@marxedproject.org for information on how to participate.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-1-part-3/2021-06-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210619T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210619T160000
DTSTAMP:20210617T175015Z
CREATED:20210428T034140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T175015Z
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SUMMARY:Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies\, Tactics\, Objectives
DESCRIPTION:with editor Robert Ovetz and researcher Gifford Hartman\nRumors of the death of the global labor movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the old trade union movement\, workers’ struggle is being reborn from below by workers themselves. \nBy engaging in what Karl Marx called a workers’ inquiry\, workers and militant co-researchers are studying their working conditions\, the technical composition of capital\, and how to recompose their own power in order to devise new tactics\, strategies\, organizational forms and objectives. These workers’ inquiries\, from call center workers to platform\, trucking\, cleaning\, logistics\, mining\, auto factories\, teachers\, and adjunct professors\, are re-energizing unions\, bypassing unions altogether or innovating new forms of workers’ organizations. \nIn one of the first major studies to critically assess this new cycle of global working class struggle\, Robert Ovetz collects together case studies from over a dozen contributors\, looking at workers’ movements in China\, Mexico\, the US\, South Africa\, Turkey\, Argentina\, Italy\, India and the UK. The book reveals how these new forms of struggle are no longer limited to single sectors of the economy or contained by state borders\, but are circulating internationally and disrupting the global capitalist system as they do. \nROBERT OVETZ is a Lecturer in Political Science at San Jose State University in California. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Brill\, 2018 and Haymarket\, 2019) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Labor and Society. GIFFORD HARTMAN is a member of the Global Supply Chain Study/Research Group (https://libcom.org/blog/empire-logistics) and is an adult educator\, labor trainer and working class historian. He has helped organize wildcat strikes at his own workplace and training sessions to build working class solidarity worldwide. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url to gain access to this event or any other event or class of The Marxist Education Project. \nThe price of the book includes shipping. This book offer is only good for the US unless you are willing to pay the difference between US Media Mail costs and the cost to mail to the country you want the book shipped to.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/workers-inquiry-and-global-class-struggle-strategies-tactics-objectives/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,Healthcare,Housing,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Labor History,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Workers’ Inquiry
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SUMMARY:Grundrisse
DESCRIPTION:Karl Marx developed his foundational thought and research for Capital in his notes of 1857-58 written during the first global economic crisis.  Undiscovered for nearly fifty years and with only a few copies reaching the West from a limited 1939-40 publication in the USSR\, these notes were first published in English as the Grundrisse:  Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy in 1973. \n\n\nIn the Grundrisse Marx arguably bridges his early writings on philosophy and Hegel\, and the writing and revisions of Capital. We will undertake a close\, word by word reading of the text with a view to understanding the concepts that evolve within it. This first term will begin with the chapter on money. Subsequent sessions on the chapter on capital will comprise two additional following terms. We will be using the current Penguin edition. \n\n\nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting on and off for seven years. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers who have dedicated themselves to a chronological reading of the Grundrisse and then Volume One through Three of Capital. \n\nWe are using the paperback Penguin edition featuring a foreword by Martin Nicolaus. These first sessions conclude July 24. There will be a two week break with no sessions July 31 or August 7. A continuing Grundrisse group will then meet from August 14 through November 6\, with no session during the Labor Day Weekend. \n  \nAll event and classes are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org for more info.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/grundrisse/2021-06-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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