Week of Events
Reading Science Fiction Politically: NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series
Reading Science Fiction Politically: NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series
"To build a better future, we have to envision it first." Reading science fiction, discussing it together, and reading it politically, offers one tool for "envisioning" a future worth building. This fall, we continue our explorations of diverse points of view of social conflict and resolution, possible and imagined just worlds, here on Earth and perhaps afar.
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III
A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism.
Historical Roots of American Fascism: The Reconstruction Era
Historical Roots of American Fascism: The Reconstruction Era
Resumes January 7, 7:00-8:30 pm ET Take part in the Political Strategy study group’s sweeping look at the history and political significance of six major waves of struggle and counter-revolution in the United States. Our study this winter begins with W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction and Manisha Sinha’s The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: ... Read more
Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change
Reading Capital in an Age of Climate Change
Matt Huber highlights the relevance to the climate crisis of key concepts from Marx's 'Capital' such as value, the hidden abode of production, surplus-value, the accumulation of capital, primitive accumulation, and the expropriation of the expropriators.