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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsJoin ongoing weekly sessions of the MEP Literature Group as we read together The Aesthetics of Resistance, the masterwork of German author Peter Weiss. This trilogy of historical novels opens in 1937 and details the interactions of the narrator and his peers and family with historical figures of the European left engaged in the fight ... Read more
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Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital
FeaturedOnline: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsAn 8-session study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.
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Hegel for Radicals: The Philosophy of Right
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsThe MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this Spring with a ten-session seminar on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. This work is a treatise on the meaning of freedom and the kind of institutions that are required for its realization. We will debunk previous myths that Hegel was a reactionary spokesman of the Prussian monarchy and ... Read more
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