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A People’s Guide to Capitalism
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupSummer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism: In ten weekly sessions starting June 8, we will read and discuss Hadas Thier's A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics. This work offers a lively, accessible, and timely guide for those who want to understand, dismantle, and replace the world of the 1%.
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The Aesthetics of Resistance: Art and Fascism in the 1930s
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupJoin 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 ... Read more
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 4 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'. Smith's notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx's understanding of capital, and Marx frequently quoted from Smith in his discussions in Capital and other writings.
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Mikhail Baitalsky’s ‘Notebooks for the Grandchildren’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelTranslator Marilyn Vogt-Downey presents a poignant memoir by Mikhail Baitalsky, a Ukrainian survivor of the 1930s purges in Soviet Union. 'Notebooks for the Grandchildren' is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand what went wrong after the great Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.
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Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventBook Event or PanelJoin us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World.' Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.
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Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupA weekly study group on Marx's Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best's 'The Automatic Fetish.' Marx's work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, 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.
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Hegel for Radicals: On Art and Literature
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupFrancis Fukuyama proclaimed The End of History in the 1990’s; art critic Arthur C. Danto proclaimed The End of Art in the 1960s. The genesis of both concepts are credited to Hegel. The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals resumes with a seminar on Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics, where we will study his understanding of art and literature.
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