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  • Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

    Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This class will journey into quantum physics and 21st-century cosmology as background for a study of dialectics in natural science and philosophy. Readings include Engels’ Dialectics of Nature and excerpts from other philosophers and scientists writing since Engels.

    $50 – $80

  • Capital, Volume 1, Part 2

    Capital, Volume 1, Part 2
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Session 2 will complete the analysis of Part I: Commodities and Money, starting with Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange followed by the historical development of the money form in the circulation of commodities. This in turn leads to the Transformation of Money into Capital, positioning the reader to analyze the specific social relations of capitalist production (wage labor and owners of capital) in relation to the forces of production, the means of production.

    $60 – $90

  • Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

    Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This class will journey into quantum physics and 21st-century cosmology as background for a study of dialectics in natural science and philosophy. Readings include Engels’ Dialectics of Nature and excerpts from other philosophers and scientists writing since Engels.

    $50 – $80

  • Capital, Volume 1, Part 2

    Capital, Volume 1, Part 2
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Session 2 will complete the analysis of Part I: Commodities and Money, starting with Chapter 2: The Process of Exchange followed by the historical development of the money form in the circulation of commodities. This in turn leads to the Transformation of Money into Capital, positioning the reader to analyze the specific social relations of capitalist production (wage labor and owners of capital) in relation to the forces of production, the means of production.

    $60 – $90

  • From Neoliberal Fashion to New Ways of Clothing with Jerónimo Montero Bressán

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    The way clothes are produced, traded and sold today around the world reflects many of the problems today’s capitalism poses to the working classes, with deleterious consequences for the environment as well. Global supply chains, in which non-finished goods flow back and forth around the world so that brands and retailers can increase their profits, dominate the landscape of this industry.

    $7 – $11

  • Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

    Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This class will journey into quantum physics and 21st-century cosmology as background for a study of dialectics in natural science and philosophy. Readings include Engels’ Dialectics of Nature and excerpts from other philosophers and scientists writing since Engels.

    $50 – $80

  • Shifting Gears with Sean Sweeney and John Treat

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Sean and John will take a global look at road transport to envision urban transport systems that are organized on a “public goods” basis. They argue that the incursions of private corporations such as Uber and Lyft could be repelled, at least partially, by improved access to high quality public transport. At the same time, given the car-dependent development of peri-urban and rural areas, and the likely expansion of urban space in the coming decades (especially in the Global South), advocates of public transport will want to explore how “occupying the platforms” through public car-sharing schemes might meet these needs as part of municipal or communally owned fleets.

    $7 – $11

  • Engels and the Dialectics of Nature

    Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This class will journey into quantum physics and 21st-century cosmology as background for a study of dialectics in natural science and philosophy. Readings include Engels’ Dialectics of Nature and excerpts from other philosophers and scientists writing since Engels.

    $50 – $80

  • Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Session 2—Debating Revolutionary Nationalism

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Alyssa Adamson, Drucilla Cornell, and Pater Hudis will critically revisit debates over the potential revolutionary value of nationalism through exploring different stages of the Global Southern reception of Rosa’s thoroughgoing internationalism.

    $7 – $11

  • Reinventing the Welfare State with Ursula Huws (Pluto FireWorks Series)

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    In “Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies” Ursula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality, including a redistributive UBI (Universal Basic Income), decommodification of platforms and also universal workers' rights. With positivity and rigour, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernize and expand public services, and improve accessibility.

    $7 – $25

  • Capitalism and the Sea

    Capitalism and the Sea
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere.

    $40 – $60

  • Start Early, Stay Late: Planning for Care in Old Age

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Covid-19 has exposed too many weaknesses in the neoliberal capitalist system to count, especially when it comes to the most vulnerable. For 10 years our international, interdisciplinary research team has been documenting the profound weaknesses in nursing home care within Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – in denial of the literature on the determinants of health – services such as food, housekeeping, and laundry have been defined out of care and dismissed as ancillary. This contracting out has not only undermined teamwork, but has also resulted in poor food, inadequate cleaning, and limited laundry – all of which threaten health.

    $7 – $11

  • Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg, Session 3—Revolutionary Subjects

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    This panel explores what it means to act as a revolutionary subject through analysis of Walter Rodney’s ambivalence about Rosa’s criticisms of revolutionary Russia, critical consideration of Rosa’s writings on slave resistance, indispensability for contemporary progressive politics in South Africa, and turn to the other-than-human world to counteract the political violence of incarceration.

    $7 – $11

  • Capital, Volume 1, Part 3

    Capital, Volume 1, Part 3
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Chapters 16 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.

    $60 – $90

  • Friedrich Engels with Terrell Carver and Kaan Kangal

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    All three author/editors celebrate the recent 200th birthday of Engels looking at his youthful works, his early relationship with Karl Marx, address controversy surrounding his Dialectics of Nature and give a broad reassessment of the importance of Engels pithing Marxisms, working class movements, science, philosophy and more.

    $7 – $11