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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-2/2022-06-22/
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: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-2/2022-06-15/
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: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-2/2022-06-08/
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: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-2/2022-06-01/
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: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-2/2022-05-25/
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: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-2/2022-05-18/
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:The Embrace of Capital with author Don Milligan
DESCRIPTION:Capitalism has swallowed us whole. It’s a love hate relationship.\nA presentation and discussion with Don Milligan\n“So refreshing and joyously subversive to read a communist’s analysis of why communism is so terribly unappetizing.” —Yanis Yaroufakis\nThe “spectre of communism” which Karl Marx confidently evoked in 1848 is now nothing more than a ghostly and ghastly nightmare\, without form or substance. This is because working people have developed a love-hate relationship with capitalism. They hate insecurity\, inequality\, and greed\, and love civic and political freedom. They love mass consumption\, and accept the logic of commerce. Barreling along through wars\, revolutions\, epidemics\, and crises of all sorts\, working people in their millions have consistently dumfounded and dismayed the left\, by their refusal to countenance any alternative to the capitalist mode of life. We have to ask: Is it possible to reverse this reality\, and once again talk of the necessity of communism? \nDon Milligan has been a gay activist\, trade unionist\, and a member of the communist movement for many decades. He published the pamphlet\, The Politics of Homosexuality in 1973\, and The Truth About the Aids Panic\, with Michael Fitzpatrick in 1987\, and also completed a doctoral thesis\, ‘The Aesthetic of Emancipation: A study of the relation between Raymond Williams’s socialism and his literary criticism\, cultural analysis and theoretical writings’\, in 2003. He lives in Manchester\, UK. \nTo order Don’s book: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/ordering/ \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-embrace-of-capital-with-author-don-milligan/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,communism,Fascism,Fordism,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Revolutions Study Group,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-2/2022-05-11/
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: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-2/2022-05-04/
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:Marx and Spinoza:  Connections and Provocations
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Jason Read\n“…in the postindustrial age the Spinozan critique of representation of capitalist power corresponds more to the truth than does the analysis of political economy.”\n—Antonio Negri\nReaders of contemporary theory will perhaps not be surprised to see the name Spinoza paired with that of Marx. Ever since Louis Althusser argued that he\, and his cowriters of Reading Capital\, were Spinozists rather than structuralists\, there has been an increased inquiry into the points of connection between Marx and Spinoza. It might even be possible to say that what the Hegel/Marx connection was to a previous generation\, animating the writings of Adorno\, Sartre\, Lukacs\, etc. the Marx/Spinoza connection is to a current collection of philosophers ranging from Althusser\, and the members of his circle such as Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey\, to Antonio Negri\, Frédéric Lordon\, Warren Montag\, and Hasana Sharp. \nThis shift in names also entails a fundamental change of problems. Whereas the relationship of Hegel to Marx was always one of the anxiety of influence\, trying to contend with both the massive influence that Hegel had on Marx as well as Marx’s attempt to critically distance himself from Hegel\, to separate the rational kernel from the mystical shell. The Spinoza/Hegel relation is less direct\, less a matter of the influence of the latter on the former\, than on their point of contact around connected problems.  These problems are less the problems that defined the Spinoza of Marx’s time\, the debates on pantheism\, Hegel’s attempt to shift the absolute from substance to subject\, than they are the debates framed by the attempts of Marxist theory to keep up with the changes of capitalism. To place it in classical Marxist terms\, Spinoza’s thought has provide the tools for developing a critique of the superstructure\, for an understanding of ideology\, power\, and the production of subjectivity. \nJASON READ is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015/Haymarket 2016) and a forthcoming collection of essays\, The Production of Subjectivity: Between Marxism and Post-Structuralism (Brill 2022) as well as The Double Shift: Marx and Spinoza on the Politics and Ideology of Work (Verso 2023). He blogs on popular culture\, philosophy\, and politics at unemployednegativity.com. \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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-spinoza-connections-and-provocations/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Marx and Spinoza,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Seminars and Talks,Spinoza
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SUMMARY:The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital
DESCRIPTION:2nd in the Socialist Register 58 Series: Old Polarizations\, New Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism\nBILL FLETCHER                  Trump and the Danger of Right-wing Populism in the US\nSAMIR GANDESHA            Identity Crisis: The Politics of False Concreteness\nINGAR SOLTY                       Market Polarization Means Political Polarization \nBill Fletcher’s essay on the “Danger of Right-Wing Populism in the US” presents a careful appraisal of the forces marshalled on the right over the course of the Trump presidency\, leading to the insurrection of January 2021. Fletcher’s longstanding contention\, put forth in his widely-noted ‘Stars and Bars’ essay in the Politics of the Right volume\, was of the dangers of a rightwing mass movement emerging in the US. \nSamir Gandesha seeks an answer in what he identifies as ‘a fragmentation of the universalism that had historically underwritten the struggle for socialism’ leading to what he terms a ‘politics of false concreteness’ centered on forms of identity politics on both the left and the right. Indeed\, in the absence of a ‘left universalism’\, Gandesha argues\, ‘we can only expect the logic of polarization to drive an already accelerating authoritarianism\, as rightwing demagogues mobilize support based on racialized grievances’. This can only be met by a ‘class identity’ that seeks a universalism ‘in its own self-dissolution’\, that is\, in the struggle against classes as such and thus capitalism. \nIngar Solty’s “Market Polarization Means Political Polarization” is a third assessment of this particular moment. Solty’s contention is that the social polarizations that result from the market processes set in motion by neoliberalism bring with them a political polarization in the form of fissures in the party systems of liberal democracies\, allowing the hard right new political space to occupy and permitting varied forms of authoritarian nationalism to take hold. He concludes with the gravest of warnings: unless a new organized working-class politics emerges\, this world world will further and further slip down the slope of liberalism into fascism’. \nIN MEMORY OF LEO PANITCH • 1945-2020  / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted. \nBILL FLETCHER JR. is a long-time trade unionist\, writer\, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum.\nSAMIR GANDESHA is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.\nINGAR SOLTY is Senior Research Fellow in Foreign\, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. \nAll book offers include US Media Mail. The book offers are for US addresses only as the costs for shipping outside of the US are often more than the price of the book. From Canada\, the book can be ordered from Fernwood. Merlin Press in the UK is the best source for other areas of the world. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hard-right-and-the-political-parties-of-capital/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Anti-fascism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Fascism,Food and politics,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation: A discussion with Marcello Musto and Michael Hardt
DESCRIPTION:“The realm of freedom really begins only where labor determined by necessity and external expediency ends; it lies by its very nature beyond the sphere of material production proper. Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his needs\, to maintain and reproduce his life\, so must civilized man\, and he must do so in all forms of society and under all possible modes of production. This realm of natural necessity expands with his development\, because his needs do too; but the productive forces to satisfy these expand at the same time. Freedom\, in this sphere\, can consist only in this\, that socialized man\, the associated producers\, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way\, bringing it under their collective control instead of being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature. But this always remains a realm of necessity. The true realm of freedom\, the development of human powers as an end in itself\, begins beyond it\, though it can only flourish with this realm of necessity as its basis. The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite.” —Karl Marx\, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume Three \nThe postcapitalist system of production\, together with scientific–technological progress and a consequent reduction of the working day\, creates the possibility for a new social formation in which the coercive\, alienated labor imposed by capital and subject to its laws is gradually replaced with conscious\, creative activity beyond the yoke of necessity\, and in which complete social relations take the place of random\, undifferentiated exchange dictated by the laws of commodities and money. It is no longer the realm of freedom for capital but the realm of genuine human freedom.\n—Marcello Musto\, Introduction to Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation \nMarcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto\, Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury\, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford\, 2020). Among his edited books there are Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury\, 2014); Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism\, (Routledge\, 2019); and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge\, 2020). His writings are available at  www.marcellomusto.org and have been published in 25 languages. \nMICHAEL HARDT is a professor of Literature at Duke University\, and a political philosopher whose writings explore new forms of domination in the world as well as social movements and other forces of liberation that counter such domination. In the Empire trilogy—Empire (Harvard\, 2000)\, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire(Penguin\, 2004)\, and Commonwealth (Harvard\, 2009)—he and Antonio Negri investigate the political\, legal\, economic\, and social aspects of globalization. Their most recent work\, Assembly (Oxford\, 2017)\, challenges social movements having traditional\, centralized forms of political leadership and instead advocate a social unionism—a combination of mixing labor organizing with social movements.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Grundrisse,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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