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SUMMARY:Mutant Ecologies in the Age of Genomic Capital
DESCRIPTION:The interconnected fields of genomic science\, genome editing\, and biotechnology have emerged over the past half-century as a revolution in the production of new life forms that have been eagerly adopted by agriculture\, pharmaceuticals\, textiles\, and other business sectors. While many – including the Nobel Committee – have heralded this as a “new epoch” of limitless possibilities for positive transformation\, In Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital\, Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante show how genetic science has been deeply intertwined from its beginning with the raw imperatives of capital accumulation. “Genomic capital\,” the authors’ term for the use of genetic materials in industrial production\, has literally altered many of life’s metabolic processes in service to capital’s demands. Within a socio-historical context defined by the iron rules of competition and exploitation\, capital no longer contents itself with simply appropriating the living bodies of plants and animals but purposefully designs their internal metabolism\, and in that way it redesigns the countless living vectors that constitute the global biosphere. This biological revolution will ripple through the everyday lives of people everywhere. Erica and Amedeo will present Mutant Ecologies and Ariel Salleh and  Stuart Newman will discuss the book and initiate the conversation. \nBook available from the publisher\, Pluto Press. \nErica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King’s College\, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism\, colonialism\, patriarchy and ecological crisis. \nAmedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction\, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries. \nAriel Salleh (discussant) is the author of Ecofeminism as Politics and numerous other books and essays on political ecology as an emerging study of humanity-nature relations. Her “embodied materialist” approach emphasizes the centrality of reproductive or regenerative labour in the world system. At present she is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities\, Nelson Mandela University\, South Africa. \nStuart Newman (discussant) is professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College and a leading scientific critic of the use of developmental biology to modify human species identity\, including cloning and germline genetic manipulation. Among his numerous books and publications\, Stuart is the co-author with Tina Stevens of Biotech Juggernaut: Hope\, Hype\, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mutant-ecologies-in-the-age-of-genomic-capital/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Covid-19,Evolutionary biology,Healthcare,Pandemics,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230204
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2023-02-03/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230128T180000
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SUMMARY:Capital's Terrorists in the Long Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:A video of this January 28\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nWith author Chad E. Pearson\nIn his new book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen\, Lawmen\, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century\, Chad E. Pearson details how US employers at the turn of the twentieth century deployed a variety of tactics to secure their power in and out of workplaces. Through the Ku Klux Klan\, Law and Order Leagues\, Stockgrowers’ organizations\, and Citizens’ Alliances\, they applied extralegal repressive techniques – including whippings\, kidnappings\, drive-out campaigns\, incarcerations\, arsons\, hangings\, and shootings – as well as less overtly illegal tactics such as shutting down meetings\, barring speakers from lecturing through blacklists\, and book burning. Driven by unambiguous economic and managerial interests\, the birth of law-and-order politics as we know it can be found in 19th-century campaigns of organized terror against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines.\nBook available from online sellers and from the publisher\, University of North Carolina Press \nChad E. Pearson is a labor historian at the University of North Texas and author of Capital’s Terrorists and Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement. He has published essays in Jacobin\, Counterpunch\, Monthly Review\, and other journals.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitals-terrorists/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Populism,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Syndicalism,Women,Working Class History
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230107
DTSTAMP:20230824T214901Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2023-01-06/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221210T160000
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SUMMARY:From Austerity to Fascism: The Capital Order
DESCRIPTION:A video of this December 10\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nClara E. Mattei presents The Capital Order\, in which she explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital – and indeed capitalism – in times of social upheaval from below. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy\, she offers a damning account of the rise of austerity – and of modern economics – at the levers of contemporary political power. Mattei reveals how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated policies that elevated owners\, smothered workers\, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across societies. Where austerity “succeeded\,” relatively speaking\, was in their enrichment of ruling-class interests who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. \nClara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She was a 2018-2019 member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/from-austerity-to-fascism-the-capital-order/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-fascism,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,England,Fascism,Globalization,Italian history,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221203
DTSTAMP:20230824T214901Z
CREATED:20210618T033341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T214901Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-12-02/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221119T160000
DTSTAMP:20221129T170653Z
CREATED:20221104T174027Z
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SUMMARY:Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video from this November 19\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nWith William I. Robinson\nGlobal Civil War provides a big-picture account of how the coronavirus pandemic and new digital technologies have transformed capitalism and the entire global economy and society. Analyzing the concentration of power and control in the hands of corporate conglomerates\, tech giants\, megabanks\, and the military-industrial complex\, the book documents the extent of unprecedented global inequalities as the mass of humanity faces violent dispossession and uncertain survival. The book issues a dire warning against the emergence of a dystopic digitalized dictatorship but also finds great hope and inspiration in the burgeoning social movements of the poor and the dispossessed as humanity descends into global civil war. \nWilliam I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Global Studies\, and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his many books are Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (2014); Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism (2018); and The Global Police State (2020). \nGlobal Civil War is available from the publisher\, PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/global-civil-war-capitalism-post-pandemic/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,China,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Covid-19,Crisis,Fascism,Financialization,Globalization,Insurgency,Migration,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Pandemics,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221106T160000
DTSTAMP:20221107T165634Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice and Socialist Strategy with Jason W. Moore
DESCRIPTION:King’s Triple Evils\, Modern Environmentalism\, and the ‘World Revolution’ of 1968\nA video of this November 6\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\n\nOn April 4\, 1967\, Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, came out publicly against the Vietnam War in a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam.” Beyond\, in that title\, meant everything. King not only broke with the liberal establishment\, which viewed the war as a separate issue from racism and as an aberration in American foreign policy. King simultaneously presented a radical critique that linked racism and exploitation at home and abroad and began to elaborate a vision of an American socialism animated by a searing indictment of capitalism’s “triple evils” (racism\, militarism\, and class exploitation). Such a socialism would be grounded in a triple alliance encompassing the antiwar\, civil rights\, and labor movements. In this talk\, Jason W. Moore addresses the missed opportunity for a program of planetary justice as the “Environmentalism of the Rich” came to the fore after 1968 and overshadowed King’s appeal for a radical turn. As King underscored in his final months\, justice cannot be effectively pursued piece by piece. The “whole society” with and within the web of life must be reinvented\, inasmuch as we are “all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality\, tied into a single garment of destiny.” At the end of the Capitalocene and the beginning of the planetary inferno\, climate justice – and socialist strategy – must proceed as if “all life were interrelated.”\nJason W. Moore\nJason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University\, where he is Professor of Sociology. His books include Capitalism in the Web of Life (2015)\, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (2016)\, and (with Raj Patel)\, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017). Moore’s books and essays on environmental history\, capitalism\, and social theory – translated into over 20 languages – have been recognized with numerous academic awards. He co-coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/moore-climate-justice/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221105
DTSTAMP:20230824T214901Z
CREATED:20210618T033341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T214901Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-11-04/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221029T160000
DTSTAMP:20230202T195529Z
CREATED:20221007T224359Z
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SUMMARY:Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire
DESCRIPTION:A video of this October 29\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nIt’s in our food\, our cosmetics\, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil\, found in half of supermarket products\, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir. With a sweeping\, experimental narrative\, Haiven takes us on a global journey that includes looted treasures\, the American system of mass incarceration\, the history of modern art and the industrialisation of war. Beyond simply calling for more consumer boycotts\, Haiven argues for recognising in palm oil humanity’s profound potential to shape our world beyond racial capitalism and neo-colonial dispossession. \nMax Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in Culture\, Media and Social Justice. His most recent books are Art after Money\, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) and Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire\, the Demons of Capital\, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020). Max also edits VAGABONDS\, a series of short\, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University\, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/palm-oil-the-grease-of-empire/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Migration,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221025T203000
DTSTAMP:20221027T183615Z
CREATED:20220929T215452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T183615Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Jaurès and the Socialist History of the French Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video from this October 25\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nJean Jaurès’s magisterial work\, A Socialist History of the French Revolution\, has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts ever published. Mitchell Abidor‘s abridged translation of the original six-volume work makes this new edition truly accessible to an Anglophone audience. Geoff Kurtz\, author of a 2014 biography of Jaurès\, joins Mitch for a conversation about the History and the author’s life and times.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/jean-jaures-and-the-socialist-history-of-the-french-revolution/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,French Revolution,historical materialism,Literature,Marx,Marxisms,Modernity,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,State Formation,Video Available,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221022T160000
DTSTAMP:20221027T191824Z
CREATED:20220929T183504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T191824Z
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SUMMARY:Adventure Capitalism: Raymond Craib Looks at 'Libertarian Exit'
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this October 22\, 2022\, event on YouTube \nThe past half century is littered with the remains of experiments in “libertarian exit.” Raymond Craib‘s new PM Press book Adventure Capitalism traces the history history of individualist\, property-oriented “escape” projects pursued by the likes of Michael Oliver\, Peter Thiel\, and Bitcoin bros. Based on research in archives in the US\, the UK\, and Vanuatu\, as well as in FBI files\, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism\, decolonization\, empire\, and oceans and islands. \nRaymond Craib teaches History at Cornell University. His research interests lie at the intersection of geography\, politics\, and everyday practice. His other works include The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile; Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes; and\, with Barry Maxwell\, No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/adventure-capitalism-raymond-craib-looks-at-libertarian-exit/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221008
DTSTAMP:20230824T214901Z
CREATED:20210618T033341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T214901Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-10-07/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220927T203000
DTSTAMP:20221027T192119Z
CREATED:20220823T170559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T192119Z
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SUMMARY:Facebooking the Anthropocene with Bob Ostertag
DESCRIPTION:Watch the video of this September 27\, 2022\, event on YouTube. \nBob Ostertag’s new book\, Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat: Technics and Civilization in the 21st Century\, offers a deeply intimate portrait of the cataclysmic shifts between humans\, technology\, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse\, he explores how we are changing as fast as the world around us—from how we make music\, to how we have sex\, to what we do to survive\, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though the environmental crisis terrifies and technology overwhelms\, Ostertag finds enough creativity\, compassion\, and humor in our evolving behavior to keep us laughing and inspired as the world we are building overtakes the world we found. \nBob Ostertag is a true polymath who has covered wars in Central America\, recorded dozens of music projects\, and published books on startlingly eclectic subjects. He fuses his travels as a touring musician with his journalist’s eye for detail and the long view of a historian. \nBook available from PM Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/facebooking-the-anthropocene-with-robert-ostertag/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-capitalist Literature,Art and politics,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Crisis,Cultural Resistance,Emancipation,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Video Available
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220903
DTSTAMP:20230824T214901Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T214901Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-09-02/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220829T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220829T183000
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-08-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220824T183000
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\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 \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We 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?” \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. \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/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-08-24/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220822T170000
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-08-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Working Class and the Middle Classes: Allies or Foes? with John Milios
DESCRIPTION:A video of this August 20\, 2022\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nThe classical political economists defined three social classes on the basis of their forms of income: capitalists (profits)\, workers (wages)\, and landowners (rents). Marx\, in his critique of political economy\, developed a new\, non-economistic and non-mechanistic “relational” class theory. On the basis of Marx’s approach\, we can tackle complex problems concerning the class structure of contemporary societies and the gray area between the working and middle classes. Certain intermediary middle-class sub-collectivities can be identified between the capitalist and the working class: the middle bourgeoisie\, the traditional petty bourgeoisie\, and the new petty bourgeoisie. Depending not only on their structural characteristics but also on the specific conjuncture\, as in an economic crisis for example\, the middle classes tend to polarize in class struggle between the two main classes of capitalist society. \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\, and the 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 in Greek since 1982) and serves on the editorial boards of four other scholarly journals. \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 because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for further information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-working-class-and-the-middle-classes-allies-or-foes-with-john-milios/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\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 \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We 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?” \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. \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/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-08-17/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220815T183000
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-08-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220810T183000
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\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 \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We 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?” \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. \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/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-08-10/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220808T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220808T183000
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-08-08/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-08-05/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220803T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220803T183000
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\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 \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We 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?” \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. \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/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-08-03/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220801T183000
DTSTAMP:20220727T213221Z
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-08-01/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Annual Pass
DESCRIPTION:This pass entitles the purchaser to attend any or all Marxist Education Project classes and events during an entire year from the month of purchase. (For example\, a pass purchased on January 7\, 2023\, will be valid until January 31\, 2024.)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/annual-pass/2022-08-01/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Literary Studies,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220727T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220727T183000
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\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 \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We 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?” \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. \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/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-07-27/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:A close reading of Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
DESCRIPTION:with the Capital Studies Group\nMany authors who have written on this concept over the 20th century have  primarily based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology\, however\, Marcello Musto focuses in on Marx’s later economic works\, in which his thoughts on alienation were elaborated rather differently than in his philosophical manuscripts. Additionally\, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism\, but also his suggestions about communist society. This wide-ranging collection of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an important critical tool both for understanding the past and for building a critique of contemporary society. \nThis group will read and discuss the Introduction to this collection and then the selections from Marx’s writings on alienation\, beginning with the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. From there we move on to key passages from Grundrisse and Capital\, Volumes One and Three. We will read and discuss the book in its entirety. We welcome those who are new to Marxist ideas as well as those who have read broadly in the works of Marx and others on these topics. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-close-reading-of-karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/2022-07-25/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,communism,Critical Theory,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Precarity,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20220720T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220720T183000
DTSTAMP:20220829T153338Z
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Presented with The Capital Studies Group\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 \nThese sessions are devoted to a close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). We 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?” \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. \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/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros-2/2022-07-20/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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