BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Marxist Education Project - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://marxedproject.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Marxist Education Project REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20220313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20221106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20240310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20241103T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T203000 DTSTAMP:20260429T192613Z CREATED:20260114T153929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T192613Z UID:10008388-1772046000-1772051400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nWill green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment\, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. \nThea Riofrancos\, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism\, unpacks these challenges through the lens of lithium\, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand\, exceeding existing supplies\, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to “secure” lithium\, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. \nMeanwhile\, Global South governments are attempting to leverage critical mineral deposits into sustainable and sovereign economic development. And\, across the world\, environmental and Indigenous movements contest the rapid expansion of extraction\, defending ecosystems\, livelihoods\, and waterways already under pressure from global warming from a new boom in mining. It is in the play of these forces\, unfolding amidst geopolitical rivalry and economic turbulence\, that the energy transition will be forged. To conclude\, Riofrancos will explore the possibility of a less mining-intensive pathway to zero-carbon transportation. \nThea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College\, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute\, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction\, renewable energy\, climate change\, the global lithium sector\, green technologies\, social movements\, and the Latin American left. She is also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writings have appeared in scholarly journals and in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, n+1\, and Dissent. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/extraction-a-book-talk-with-author-thea-riofrancos/ LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Winter 2026 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Riofrancos-web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251116T160000 DTSTAMP:20251118T155436Z CREATED:20250820T223138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T155436Z UID:10008357-1763301600-1763308800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 16\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nIn her new book Free Gifts\, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to place value on nature. She argues that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified\, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. Why have some things come to have value under capitalism—and why have others not. Recovering and reinterpreting classical economists’ idea of “free gifts of nature\,” Battistoni builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. She addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought\, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry\, pollution in the environment\, reproductive labor in the household\, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing\, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers\, including Friedrich Hayek\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Garrett Hardin\, Silvia Federici\, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately\, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present\, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world\, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts. \nAlyssa Battistoni is assistant professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writing has appeared in The Nation\, the Guardian\, Boston Review\, n+1\, Dissent\, The New Statesman\, Jacobin\, and New Left Review. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/freegifts-battistoni/ LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Book talks,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Fall 2025,Marx,Marxisms,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Video Available ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WebImage_AB.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T153000 DTSTAMP:20250221T170638Z CREATED:20250131T122259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250221T170638Z UID:10008332-1739628000-1739633400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:LA Is Burning with Dennis Broe DESCRIPTION:A recording of this February 15\, 2025\, event is available on our YouTube channel. \nPoliticians are blaming the destruction and loss of life in the Los Angeles wildfires on each other\, but the truth is the fires are the result of not even years or decades but centuries of neglect. Dennis Broe examines this history and sheds light on the ingrained power\, the structural class and racial imbalances\, and the wanton devastation of a city organized not for its people but for its elites. Using Mike Davis’s classic Ecology of Fear as a blueprint\, Broe will put the still smoldering fires in context by looking at five areas: the geological long durée of a land of fires\, earthquakes\, tornados and mudslides; the ecological relationship of the fires to ever more intense global warming; the neoliberal moment of the deterioration of the state in its domestic and global dimensions; the region’s sedimented class and racial inequalities (exemplified by the recently devastated African-American community of Altadena); and the altered character of Los Angeles–and especially “Hollywood”–as no longer simply a site of imagined disasters but one that is now all too real. \nDennis Broe\, a journalist\, critic and scholar who has taught at the Sorbonne and spoken at many MEP events\, is the author of many books on film noir\, media\, and television\, including five novels set in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s\, the latest of which is The Dark Ages\, about the coming of McCarthyism to Hollywood. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/ LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Cultural Resistance,Film and television,History,Housing,Media Criticism,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,US History,Winter 2025 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hollywood_sign_fire.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T203000 DTSTAMP:20250109T193820Z CREATED:20241211T223321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T193820Z UID:10008327-1736362800-1736368200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change DESCRIPTION:A recording of this January 8\, 2025\, event is available on YouTube. \nWhile there is a robust and exploding literature on capitalism as the root cause of climate change\, few have systematically explored Karl Marx’s most important finished work – Volume 1 of Capital – to bring to light the climate repercussions of capital’s “laws of motion.” Volume 1 is of special importance to a Marxist climate politics given the centrality of production in causing climate change itself. Matt Huber highlights the relevance to the climate crisis of key concepts such as value\, the hidden abode of production\, surplus-value\, the accumulation of capital\, primitive accumulation\, and the expropriation of the expropriators. \nMatt Huber is Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University and the author of two books\, Climate Change as Class War and Lifeblood: Oil\, Freedom\, and the Forces of Capital. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-climate-change/ LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,featured,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/air-air-pollution-climate-change-221012.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240619T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240619T143000 DTSTAMP:20240614T095832Z CREATED:20240325T163839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T095832Z UID:10008295-1718802000-1718807400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works\, New Debates DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism’s catastrophic impact on the Earth’s climate and other critical systems\, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24\, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice\, with chapters from and critical reviews of these books\, along with recently published essays by Andreas Malm and others: \n\nJohn Bellamy Foster\, The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature\nShourideh C. Molavi\, Environmental Warfare in Gaza\nAjay Singh Chaudhary\, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World\nKohei Saito\, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto\nAshley Dawson\, Environmentalism From Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet\n\nAll are welcome – participation in previous sessions is not required. Final session is June 19 – contact us if you wish to join. \nConvened by Fred Murphy\, who has co-led recurring ecosocialist sessions with Steve Knight since 2016. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxism-and-planetary-crises-new-works-new-debates/2024-06-19/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Globalization,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Summer 2024 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PermaForest3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240612T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240612T143000 DTSTAMP:20240614T095832Z CREATED:20240325T163839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T095832Z UID:10007975-1718197200-1718202600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works\, New Debates DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism’s catastrophic impact on the Earth’s climate and other critical systems\, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24\, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice\, with chapters from and critical reviews of these books\, along with recently published essays by Andreas Malm and others: \n\nJohn Bellamy Foster\, The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature\nShourideh C. Molavi\, Environmental Warfare in Gaza\nAjay Singh Chaudhary\, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World\nKohei Saito\, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto\nAshley Dawson\, Environmentalism From Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet\n\nAll are welcome – participation in previous sessions is not required. Final session is June 19 – contact us if you wish to join. \nConvened by Fred Murphy\, who has co-led recurring ecosocialist sessions with Steve Knight since 2016. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxism-and-planetary-crises-new-works-new-debates/2024-06-12/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Globalization,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Summer 2024 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PermaForest3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007627-1701176400-1701181800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-28/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007626-1700571600-1700577000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-21/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007625-1699966800-1699972200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-14/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007624-1699362000-1699367400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-07/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007623-1698757200-1698762600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-31/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007622-1698152400-1698157800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-24/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007621-1697547600-1697553000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-17/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007620-1696942800-1696948200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-10/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007619-1696338000-1696343400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-03/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T143000 DTSTAMP:20230816T200523Z CREATED:20230816T200523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230816T200523Z UID:10007618-1695733200-1695738600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-09-26/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCC_web-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230627T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230627T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007314-1687870800-1687876200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-27/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230620T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230620T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007313-1687266000-1687271400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-20/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230613T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230613T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007312-1686661200-1686666600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-13/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230606T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007311-1686056400-1686061800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-06-06/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230530T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007310-1685451600-1685457000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-30/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230523T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007309-1684846800-1684852200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-23/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230516T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007308-1684242000-1684247400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-16/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230509T143000 DTSTAMP:20230825T172657Z CREATED:20230419T155557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T172657Z UID:10007307-1683637200-1683642600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Marx in the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:An eight-week reading group centered on Kohei Saito’s newly published Marx in the Anthropocene: Toward the Idea of Degrowth Communism\, with side glances at Saito’s critics and further elaborations of the notion of “degrowth communism.” Saito’s book\, says Gareth Dale\, offers us “the next step in a transformation of our understanding of ‘Marx’s ecology.’ For his Marx\, human society arises from nature: it is simultaneously of it and against it\, in that humans are conscious of their relationship to nature and consciously shape it\, in a relationship that develops historically. The term that captures this is metabolism\, referring to humanity’s interaction with nature through social labor—a relationship that becomes increasingly riven the more it is subsumed under capital.” Through a close examination of Marx’s unpublished notes on natural science and anthropology from the 1870s\, Saito uncovers Marx’s late recognition that the productive forces “do not automatically prepare the material foundation for new post-capitalist society but rather exacerbate the robbery of nature.” Thus he presents us with a Marx who in his final years was effectively advocating “degrowth communism.” \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy\, who has led numerous MEP study groups on Marxism\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American history and politics. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-anthropocene/2023-05-09/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,communism,Ecosocialism,Engels,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Mészáros,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marx-Greenery2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230322T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230322T183000 DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z CREATED:20221211T182130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z UID:10007263-1679504400-1679509800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-03-22/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/web-banner2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230315T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230315T183000 DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z CREATED:20221211T182130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z UID:10007262-1678899600-1678905000@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-03-15/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/web-banner2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230308T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230308T183000 DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z CREATED:20221211T182130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z UID:10007261-1678294800-1678300200@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-03-08/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/web-banner2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230301T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230301T183000 DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z CREATED:20221211T182130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z UID:10007260-1677690000-1677695400@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-03-01/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/web-banner2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T183000 DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z CREATED:20221211T182130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z UID:10007259-1677085200-1677090600@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-02-22/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/web-banner2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230215T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230215T183000 DTSTAMP:20230324T023245Z CREATED:20221211T182130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z UID:10007258-1676480400-1676485800@marxedproject.org SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016. URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-02-15/ LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/web-banner2.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR