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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 and Capital,Evolutionary biology,Healthcare,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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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:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,China,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Covid and Capital,Crisis,Financialization,Globalization,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Migration,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2022: Polarization and Socialism: The Direction Forward
DESCRIPTION:with\nSam Gindin\, Adolph Reed\, Jr.\, Toure Reed\, Vishwas Satgur\, James Schneider and Hilary Wainwright\,\nVISHWAS SATGUR\nEpidemiological Neoliberalism in South Africa\nIn this presentation\, Vishwas Satgar sets out the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa as an example of polarized access to medical services shamelessly piled on top of acute polarizations of income and employment and ecological vandalism. But the ANC government’s neoliberal pandemic response\, “has also unleashed a cycle of post-apartheid progressive resistance.” \nJAMES SCHNEIDER and HILARY WAINWRIGHT\nFinding a Way Forward: Lessons from the Corbyn Project\nA discussion of the lessons to be learned from the experience of Momentum as a national campaign organization for the left wing of the UK Labour Party and its achievements (despite ultimate failure to elect a government led by Jeremy Corbyn).  They are optimists in their accounting of the new spaces that are now open for a radical democratic politics in Britain. \nADOLPH REED\, JR. and TOURE REED \n“Race” and Racial Justice under Neoliberalism\nThis presentation links the rise of the hard right in US politics to the marginalization of the progressive pole as “the black political class” became embedded in “the Democratic Party’s commitment to a programme of retrenchment.” Addressing poverty and continuing social inequality in the black community requires building a broader working-class movement. \nSAM GINDIN\nAmerican Workers and the Left after Trump: Polarized Options\nSam argues that the inherent limits of Democratic Party “Keynesian” reflation still constitutes a difficult terrain for the left in the USA\, which needs to take care not to slip into the trap of spending all its energies defending the liberal forces exemplified by Biden as opposed to organizing labor and independent social struggles. \n Summary by series editor GREG ALBO \nVishwas Satgar\, associate professor of International Relations\, University of Witwatersrand\, is principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene. James Schneider\, communications director of Progressive International\, is a co-founder of Momentum and was a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn; Hilary Wainwright is an editor of Red Pepper magazine and a fellow of the Transnational Institute and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Development Studies\, Sussex University. Adolph Reed Jr. is Professor Emeritus of political science\, University of Pennsylvania; Touré F. Reed is a professor of history at Illinois State University. Sam Gindin is former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers and co-author of The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire. \nSocialist Register #58 is available for $28 including shipping via US Media Mail (this offer is only good for the US and Puerto Rico). In Canada Socialist Register is available from Fernwood Books and in Europe from The Merlin Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2022-polarization-and-socialism-the-direction-forward/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Late Capital and Fascism,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,Socialist Register
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SUMMARY:After the Pandemic: Rebuilding the Medicare for All Movement
DESCRIPTION:with Mark Dudzic \nThe world’s most expensive healthcare system failed catastrophically under the real-world structure test of the pandemic. This crisis drove home both the absurdity of linking healthcare to employment and the importance of treating healthcare as a decommodified public good. But the politics of the emerging post pandemic period are not conducive to big\, transformative initiatives like Medicare for All. We will explore this disjuncture between social necessity and political possibility and how it might be resolved with particular emphasis on the role of the institutional labor movement. \nMARK DUDZIC is the Chair of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and is a longtime union organizer and activist. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/after-the-pandemic-rebuilding-the-medicare-for-all-movement/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Crisis,Food and politics,Healthcare,Labor Organizing,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Labor under Neoliberal Authoritarianism\nEditors Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol joined by contributors Cosku Celik\, Ertan Erol\, and Elif Hacısalihoğlu\nA comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey\nDecades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change\, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life. This presentation will look at the historical and current outcomes brough about by the authoritarian\, militarized civil life for Turkish workers. What will be the long term consequences for workers in Turkey? \nMoving beyond the headlines and personalities\, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews\, this book offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace struggles\, trade unionism\, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism\, migration\, gender\, agrarian change and precarity\, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers. This volume also brings together a broad range of Turkish activists and scholars who consider what the dynamics and contradictions of working-class resistance against Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime have become; worker self-management\, organized labor\, and class struggles in rural areas are examined. \nÇağatay Edgücan Şahin is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Ordu\, Turkey. He has published various books including Human Capital and Human Resources: A Critical Approach (2011).\nMehmet Erman Erol is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge\, UK. He has contributed to journals and books on Turkish & Middle East political economy and labor market restructuring.\nCosku Celik (York University\, Visiting Assistant Professor). Her chapter entitled ‘The Making of the Rural Proletariat in Neoliberal Turkey’\nElif Hacısalihoğlu (Trakya University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor). Chapter ‘A View of Precarization from Turkey: Urban-rural Dynamics and Intergenerational Precarity’\nErtan Erol (Istanbul University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor) Chapter ‘Burden or a Saviour at a time of Economic Crisis: AKP’s ‘Open-Door Migration Policy’ and its Impact on Labor Market Restructuring in Turkey \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able  to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-turkey/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Brecht’s Communist Manifesto Today!
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, Utopia\, Doctrine\n \nDarko Suvin with Pratyush Chandra\, Bill Henning\, Javeed Malik & Neeraj Malick\, and Christopher Winks\n“Poetry and communism: forms for emancipatory egalitarian longing. As vectors of desire\, they intertwine frustration and hope\, utopia and organization\, bread and roses. They call us to attend to the past\, not just to survive\, but to establish again the revolutionary horizon we need to live. Communism and poetry: Darko Suvin shows us how they are the same.”     —Jodi Dean\, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging \nA POEM • WHAT EXISTENTIAL ANTI-UTOPIA MEANS FOR US • BERTOLT BRECHT: (THE MANIFESTO) •  COMMENTS ON BRECHT’S MANIFESTO •  WHAT IS TO BE DONE? \nIn place of the old bourgeois society\, with its classes and class antagonisms\, we shall have an association\, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.” —1848 Communist Manifesto\, Marx and Engels.\nCome join in a celebration and reclamation of the challenge Marx and Engels gave humanity in the original 1848 Communist Manifesto\, reclaimed and rewritten anew in poetry by Bertolt Brecht in the 20th century. Thanks to Darko Suvin\, poet and revolutionary intellectual\, Brecht’s unpublished work has been translated into English and is here\, ready to be appropriated by us of the 21st century. The Marxist Education Project is proud to present a reading and discussion of Brecht’s work and its meaning for us at a time when all of humanity\, our earth\, and all life as we know it is threatened by the moribund laws of self-seeking capitalist private property. Brecht premises his poem on the practical reality\, only fully in place after WWII\, of a globalized capitalized world. Marx understood that capitalist relations would globalize our societies and earth and saw this taking place\, but during his lifetime this had not yet been fully achieved. Now\, having occupied our earth\, today\, the Bezos and company are exploring the possibilities of extending their private interests into our universe all for their personal aggrandizement and under the dictates of money making more money\, accumulation for the sake of accumulation. Our guest speakers and discussants will explore the relations of poetry\, the meaning of utopia and anti-utopia\, and doctrine as we re-envision the emancipatory project and the necessity of self-consciously identifying the difficult tasks of transitioning specific to our particular country’s development while always in relation to and for the mutual development of each and all. Interestingly\, Brecht closes his Manifesto replying to Marx and Engels closing line in their Manifesto\, “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win\,” by answering\, “How may the workers break their own class chains? Only by breaking everybody’s chains.” Marx once said that there are historical moments when the working class must gain class-consciousness and become historical subjects. We are at just such a historical moment. \nAre we up to the task? \n  \n  \nThis event is sliding scale: $23 for those who can afford front row orchestra seating / $3 General Admission a / $0 General Admission b \nWith registration a link for the event will be provided in time for attending this event.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/brechts-communist-manifesto-today/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Literary Studies,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Ecosocialism in the Shadow of Covid
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week online study (2 weeks remain—recordings of earlier sessions are available to new attendees)\nConvened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nJoin The Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group as we convene online this fall to consider new works on the political economy of global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic. We will read and discuss three books: The Corona Crash (Verso)\, by Grace Blakeley\, details how the pandemic is ushering in a new era in which the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state\, and behemoths like Amazon and Netflix balloon in profit and power. White Skin\, Black Fuel (Verso)\, by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective\, takes a comprehensive look at how extreme-right currents are responding to ecological crises with with authoritarian and xenophobic proposals while remaining ardent supporters of fossil capital – black fuels to support white supremacy. And A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto)\, by Max Ajl\, engages critically with various Green New Deal proposals and sketches out a radical alternative committed to degrowth\, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led study groups at The MEP on ecosocialism\, the history of capitalism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of The MEP ecosocialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist and is active with faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on ecosocialism for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ecosocialism-in-the-shadow-of-covid/2021-11-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Covid and Capital,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Ecosocialism in the Shadow of Covid
DESCRIPTION:A 10-week online study (2 weeks remain—recordings of earlier sessions are available to new attendees)\nConvened with Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\nJoin The Marxist Education Project’s Ecosocialism Study Group as we convene online this fall to consider new works on the political economy of global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic. We will read and discuss three books: The Corona Crash (Verso)\, by Grace Blakeley\, details how the pandemic is ushering in a new era in which the corporate economy collapses into the arms of the state\, and behemoths like Amazon and Netflix balloon in profit and power. White Skin\, Black Fuel (Verso)\, by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective\, takes a comprehensive look at how extreme-right currents are responding to ecological crises with with authoritarian and xenophobic proposals while remaining ardent supporters of fossil capital – black fuels to support white supremacy. And A People’s Green New Deal (Pluto)\, by Max Ajl\, engages critically with various Green New Deal proposals and sketches out a radical alternative committed to degrowth\, anti-imperialism and agro-ecology. \nFRED MURPHY has co-led study groups at The MEP on ecosocialism\, the history of capitalism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has been a co-leader of The MEP ecosocialist study groups since 2015.  He is also a climate activist and is active with faith-centered groups\, and reviews books on ecosocialism for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ecosocialism-in-the-shadow-of-covid/2021-11-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Covid and Capital,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Food and politics,Globalization,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Revolution in the Virocene: Near (or Nearing) the End of Time
DESCRIPTION:a presentation by the SITUATIONS COLLECTIVE (PROJECT OF THE RADICAL IMAGINATION)\nThis event is based on the collective work which appears in the current issue of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination\, Vol. IX\,available at info@radicalimagination.institute \nfrom Pandemic Paper\, no 1                                                                        \n“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency\, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress\, its opponents treat it as a historical norm…”. —Walter Benjamin\, “Theses (VIII) on the Philosophy of History” (1940) \nForeclosing the Political\nCOVID-19 and the emergent virocene has made insurgency explicit in the real State of emergency. We have been awakened from our collective ahistorical and apolitical slumbers. In an instant\, the mantra of there is no alternative has been replaced by whatever happens\, nothing will ever be the same. The ideology that says radical transformation is unrealistic has been irrevocably discredited. The bonds and rituals of everyday life have been loosened\, fragmented and disjointed. What seemed inevitable and iron clad now feels flimsy as nation states globally scramble to find solutions that don’t exist. This opens up a space for thinking\, and for politics. This new situation underscores a critical need for both practical intervention and an attempt at building a convergent philosophy that anticipates the praxis of the future. \nWe have endured over 40 years of the foreclosure of the political and suffered its failures to the limit in which the State and its functioning doesn’t seem to exist except as an appendage of the needs and welfare of the Global corporations. We inhabit a transnational garrison state\, inside the automated logic of a newly formed atomistic\, disoriented\, disembodied populace\, a multitude of chaotic flux without political direction or organization. As we have painfully learned from history\, this kind of situation is capital for right-wing populism with its accompanying authoritarian personalities and\, on the other side\, at best a mild form of ambiguous socialist desire. Our enemies act quickly and often with unified fronts. \nThe SITUATIONS COLLECTIVE collaborators on “Revolution in the Virocene” as Pandemic Paper No. 1 are  Peter Bratsis\, Jeremy Glick\, Bruno Gulli\, Josh Kolbo\, Kristin Lawler and Michael Pelias.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/revolution-in-the-virocene-near-or-nearing-the-end-of-time/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Critical Theory,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Seminars and Talks
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