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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Organizing Insurgency: Workers’ Movements in the Global South
DESCRIPTION:A Pluto Wildcat with author Immanuel Ness\nWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North\, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism. \nLooking at contemporary case studies in India\, the Philippines and South Africa\, this book affirms the significance of political and economic representation to the struggles of workers against deepening levels of poverty and inequality that oppress the majority of people on the planet. Immanuel Ness shows that workers are eager to mobilize to improve their conditions\, and can achieve lasting gains if they have sustenance and support from political organizations. From the Dickensian industrial zones of Delhi to the agrarian oligarchy on the island of Mindanao\, a common element remains – when workers organize they move closer to the realization of socialism\, solidarity and equality. \nImmanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author and editor of many books\, including Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto\, 2015) and Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South (Haymarket\, 2017).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/organizing-insurgency-workers-movements-in-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210521T193000
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SUMMARY:New York City and the Experience of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:with Thomas Wensing\n2 MORE SESSIONS\nMr. Perry flicked at the burdock leaves with his cane. The real-estate agent was pleading in a singsong voice:\n“I dont mind telling you\, Mr. Perry\, it’s an opportunity not to be missed. […] In six months I can virtually guarantee that these lots will have doubled in value.”\n— Dos Passos\, John; Manhattan Transfer\, Penguin Books\, Inc New York\, 1925\, first penguin books edition 1946\, p.11-12 \n \nThis is a seminar about New York City and its people. It is not a study of architectural styles and objects\, – although the physical stuff of cities does play a role -\, but it is a course about the experience of the way in which modernity builds and destroys cities. \nModernity is a historical force. It is messy. In architecture history modernity is usually narrated as an interplay between the combined forces of the Industrial Revolution and capital\, with social upheaval\, explosive population growth and immigration as its result. The invention of new materials and new technologies stimulated new forms\, structures\, typologies\, and — in the most optimistic accounts — new forms of living. In this formal reading the historian looks at the artefacts produced by these forces as cultural evidence: railway stations\, factories\, powerplants and switching stations\, dams\, canals and railway lines\, skyscrapers\, tenements\, and department stores\, are all comparatively assessed\, but rarely is the subjective experience of these spaces and landscapes considered. \nThe United States traditionally has had a fraught relationship with its cities in both a positive and a negative sense. Urban areas were\, and are\, pictured as alleged dens of vice\, disease\, and social corruption\, while others project utopian aspirations onto the city which are hard to fulfil in the best of circumstances. Even social science\, which intends to accurately describe the effects of economic change on the social fabric\, lacks by nature the discursive framework to communicate the emotive impact of these processes on individual subjects.\n—Walter Siebel; Die Kultur der Stadt\, Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin\, 2015\, 2nd print\, 2016\, p.39-40 Walter Siebel sees literary studies as a necessary complement to the social sciences\, to offer necessary detail to the abstraction of numbers. \nIn this semester the course participants will be presented with multiple views of the same topic; one drawn from the professional literature\, and one from fiction or biography. Two datasets are compared: that of sociologists\, urban planners\, geographers\, and architects\, with that of the subjective vantage point of the biographical account or the fictional character. Writers and novelists have been able to direct the gaze at groups which have been excluded from the path of progress\, – as it was defined and constricted by society – to express diverging meanings to life in the metropolis. Theirs were often minority views\, but in expressing them\, they were able to carve out space for the ‘other’\, and they have expanded the conversation and imagination in indelible ways. A question which looms large in this seminar is the relationship between individual agency and collective action. The seminar encourages the expression of personal\, familial\, local\, and ethnic explorations and to tie these to larger societal trends.\n—Marshall Berman\, All That Is Solid Melts into Air – The Experience of Modernity\, Simon & Shuster\, New York\, 1982\, Verso\, London\, Brooklyn\, 2010\, p.346-347. \nEach week will consist of a visual presentation\, a related lecture with group discussion. \nThomas Wensing is a Dutch architect who teaches architecture and architectural history at Kean University in NJ. He writes regularly on the intersection of architecture and politics. \n5:30 to 7:30 pm US DST • 10:30 pm to 12:30 am (GMT)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-york-city-and-the-experience-of-modernity-8-week-session/2021-05-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-20/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
DESCRIPTION:This series is based on the new Rowan and Littlefield volume edited by Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon. All participating session leaders are contributors to the forthcoming\, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, which will be available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg \nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation. Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. \nThis six-part seminar series explores some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy\, including the mass strike; her reflections\, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration\, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present. \n  \nUnfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women\nPaget Henry\, Brown University; Sandra Rein\nMay 15th\, 2-4 pm USA DST / 6-8pm GMT\nSession Six stages conversations between Rosa and other revolutionary women with whom she could not have spoken\, including Paget Henry speaking about Sylvia Wynter and Claudia Jones\, and Sandra Rein will speak of the revolutionary legacy of Raya Danayevskaya. \nThe May 15 panel will be from 2 to 4 pm. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to get information on attending this series or any other event or class at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-a-six-part-series/2021-05-15/2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Unfinished Conversations with Revolutionary Women
DESCRIPTION:This series is based on the new Rowan and Littlefield volume edited by Drucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon. All participating session leaders are contributors to the forthcoming\, Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, which will be available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg \nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation. Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution. \nThis six-part seminar series explores some of her signal contributions—her argument that imperialism and primitive accumulation are endemic to capitalism; her prescient attention to racist super-exploitation in southern Africa; her insistence that socialism had to be created in and through the widest form of participatory democracy\, including the mass strike; her reflections\, with attention to the other-than-human world and incarceration\, on transformative subjectivities—through putting them in conversation with Global Southern thinkers past and present. \n  \nUnfinished Conversations among Revolutionary Women\nPaget Henry\, Brown University; Sandra Rein\nMay 15th\, 2-4 pm USA DST / 6-8pm GMT\nSession Six stages conversations between Rosa and other revolutionary women with whom she could not have spoken\, including Paget Henry speaking about Sylvia Wynter and Claudia Jones\, and Sandra Rein will speak of the revolutionary legacy of Raya Danayevskaya. \nThe May 15 panel will be from 2 to 4 pm. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission because of inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org to get information on attending this series or any other event or class at The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-a-six-part-series/2021-05-15/1/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Extractivism,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210514T193000
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SUMMARY:New York City and the Experience of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:with Thomas Wensing\n2 MORE SESSIONS\nMr. Perry flicked at the burdock leaves with his cane. The real-estate agent was pleading in a singsong voice:\n“I dont mind telling you\, Mr. Perry\, it’s an opportunity not to be missed. […] In six months I can virtually guarantee that these lots will have doubled in value.”\n— Dos Passos\, John; Manhattan Transfer\, Penguin Books\, Inc New York\, 1925\, first penguin books edition 1946\, p.11-12 \n \nThis is a seminar about New York City and its people. It is not a study of architectural styles and objects\, – although the physical stuff of cities does play a role -\, but it is a course about the experience of the way in which modernity builds and destroys cities. \nModernity is a historical force. It is messy. In architecture history modernity is usually narrated as an interplay between the combined forces of the Industrial Revolution and capital\, with social upheaval\, explosive population growth and immigration as its result. The invention of new materials and new technologies stimulated new forms\, structures\, typologies\, and — in the most optimistic accounts — new forms of living. In this formal reading the historian looks at the artefacts produced by these forces as cultural evidence: railway stations\, factories\, powerplants and switching stations\, dams\, canals and railway lines\, skyscrapers\, tenements\, and department stores\, are all comparatively assessed\, but rarely is the subjective experience of these spaces and landscapes considered. \nThe United States traditionally has had a fraught relationship with its cities in both a positive and a negative sense. Urban areas were\, and are\, pictured as alleged dens of vice\, disease\, and social corruption\, while others project utopian aspirations onto the city which are hard to fulfil in the best of circumstances. Even social science\, which intends to accurately describe the effects of economic change on the social fabric\, lacks by nature the discursive framework to communicate the emotive impact of these processes on individual subjects.\n—Walter Siebel; Die Kultur der Stadt\, Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin\, 2015\, 2nd print\, 2016\, p.39-40 Walter Siebel sees literary studies as a necessary complement to the social sciences\, to offer necessary detail to the abstraction of numbers. \nIn this semester the course participants will be presented with multiple views of the same topic; one drawn from the professional literature\, and one from fiction or biography. Two datasets are compared: that of sociologists\, urban planners\, geographers\, and architects\, with that of the subjective vantage point of the biographical account or the fictional character. Writers and novelists have been able to direct the gaze at groups which have been excluded from the path of progress\, – as it was defined and constricted by society – to express diverging meanings to life in the metropolis. Theirs were often minority views\, but in expressing them\, they were able to carve out space for the ‘other’\, and they have expanded the conversation and imagination in indelible ways. A question which looms large in this seminar is the relationship between individual agency and collective action. The seminar encourages the expression of personal\, familial\, local\, and ethnic explorations and to tie these to larger societal trends.\n—Marshall Berman\, All That Is Solid Melts into Air – The Experience of Modernity\, Simon & Shuster\, New York\, 1982\, Verso\, London\, Brooklyn\, 2010\, p.346-347. \nEach week will consist of a visual presentation\, a related lecture with group discussion. \nThomas Wensing is a Dutch architect who teaches architecture and architectural history at Kean University in NJ. He writes regularly on the intersection of architecture and politics. \n5:30 to 7:30 pm US DST • 10:30 pm to 12:30 am (GMT)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-york-city-and-the-experience-of-modernity-8-week-session/2021-05-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210513T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210513T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210510T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210510T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T194520Z
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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210507T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210507T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210402T005720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210614T173123Z
UID:10006928-1620408600-1620415800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:New York City and the Experience of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:with Thomas Wensing\n2 MORE SESSIONS\nMr. Perry flicked at the burdock leaves with his cane. The real-estate agent was pleading in a singsong voice:\n“I dont mind telling you\, Mr. Perry\, it’s an opportunity not to be missed. […] In six months I can virtually guarantee that these lots will have doubled in value.”\n— Dos Passos\, John; Manhattan Transfer\, Penguin Books\, Inc New York\, 1925\, first penguin books edition 1946\, p.11-12 \n \nThis is a seminar about New York City and its people. It is not a study of architectural styles and objects\, – although the physical stuff of cities does play a role -\, but it is a course about the experience of the way in which modernity builds and destroys cities. \nModernity is a historical force. It is messy. In architecture history modernity is usually narrated as an interplay between the combined forces of the Industrial Revolution and capital\, with social upheaval\, explosive population growth and immigration as its result. The invention of new materials and new technologies stimulated new forms\, structures\, typologies\, and — in the most optimistic accounts — new forms of living. In this formal reading the historian looks at the artefacts produced by these forces as cultural evidence: railway stations\, factories\, powerplants and switching stations\, dams\, canals and railway lines\, skyscrapers\, tenements\, and department stores\, are all comparatively assessed\, but rarely is the subjective experience of these spaces and landscapes considered. \nThe United States traditionally has had a fraught relationship with its cities in both a positive and a negative sense. Urban areas were\, and are\, pictured as alleged dens of vice\, disease\, and social corruption\, while others project utopian aspirations onto the city which are hard to fulfil in the best of circumstances. Even social science\, which intends to accurately describe the effects of economic change on the social fabric\, lacks by nature the discursive framework to communicate the emotive impact of these processes on individual subjects.\n—Walter Siebel; Die Kultur der Stadt\, Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin\, 2015\, 2nd print\, 2016\, p.39-40 Walter Siebel sees literary studies as a necessary complement to the social sciences\, to offer necessary detail to the abstraction of numbers. \nIn this semester the course participants will be presented with multiple views of the same topic; one drawn from the professional literature\, and one from fiction or biography. Two datasets are compared: that of sociologists\, urban planners\, geographers\, and architects\, with that of the subjective vantage point of the biographical account or the fictional character. Writers and novelists have been able to direct the gaze at groups which have been excluded from the path of progress\, – as it was defined and constricted by society – to express diverging meanings to life in the metropolis. Theirs were often minority views\, but in expressing them\, they were able to carve out space for the ‘other’\, and they have expanded the conversation and imagination in indelible ways. A question which looms large in this seminar is the relationship between individual agency and collective action. The seminar encourages the expression of personal\, familial\, local\, and ethnic explorations and to tie these to larger societal trends.\n—Marshall Berman\, All That Is Solid Melts into Air – The Experience of Modernity\, Simon & Shuster\, New York\, 1982\, Verso\, London\, Brooklyn\, 2010\, p.346-347. \nEach week will consist of a visual presentation\, a related lecture with group discussion. \nThomas Wensing is a Dutch architect who teaches architecture and architectural history at Kean University in NJ. He writes regularly on the intersection of architecture and politics. \n5:30 to 7:30 pm US DST • 10:30 pm to 12:30 am (GMT)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/new-york-city-and-the-experience-of-modernity-8-week-session/2021-05-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Immigration,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210506T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210506T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210120T022912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T070129Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Towards a Revolution in Labor History: White Supremacism and Bourgeois Social Control in US History\nSean Ahearn and the Revolutions Study Group\n4 more sessions\nWhy is the US working class unorganized and suffering to a far greater extent than in other advanced capitalist societies?\nThere are two texts for these sessions: “Towards a Revolution in Labor History” (an unpublished manuscript by Theodore W. Allen now made available on line by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and The Southern Key: Class\, Race and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Michael Goldfield.These two critical works challenge the way in which US labor history is currently understood and taught. \nGoldfield connects racial oppression\, “white” blindness and “white” racial opportunism in the heyday of labor’s apparent greatest victories\, to it’s post war defeats and subsequent rise of neo-liberalism. \nAllen views the exclusion of the 17th\,18th\,and 19th century ante-bellum African American chattel laborer from standard labor histories as an example of the “White Blindspot” which supports “white” labor opportunism. Connected to this is a misunderstanding of the ante-bellum southern plantation system as a non-capitalist mode of production. The racially oppressed and exploited chattel laborer\, who produced the surplus value central to the growth of capitalism in North America\, is thereby placed outside the purview of “labor history\,” relegated to a pre- history\, a Black history\, a side show at best to the emergence of the factory system based on the waged European-American laborers in the 19th century. \nThe Revolutions Study Group (started at the Brecht Forum) has met since 2009. The groups has recently completed an in-depth study of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction. Sean Ahearn is a long-time New York City activist\, organizer\, and instructor who has been thoroughly engaged with a study of the development of class in relationship to race from the time of the colonial settlers coming to the Americas to developments taking place during these days of late capital. \nThese classes originate in New York City. If you are out of this timezone use this for reference: 6:30 – 8 PM (EST NYC) 11:30 PM – 1 AM (GMT) \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. If you are unable to contribute but would like to attend this or other classes or events\, please write to info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL for the codes to enter the on-line zoom sessions. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history-white-supremacism-and-bourgeois-social-control/2021-05-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210503T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210228T022016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T194520Z
UID:10006888-1620046800-1620052200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210502T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210502T163000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210127T073133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210429T014708Z
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SUMMARY:Socialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism (the entire series)
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\nContinues on April 27 with another final session on May 2\nThere are tickets for each session for those who are unable to be present for this series. The series tickets provide entrance to the remaining 6 presentations with discussions. \n“In addressing how far digital technology has become integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades the 21st century\, we were deliberately seeking to counter so much facile futurist ‘cyber-utopian’ thinking that has proliferated through these decades. The proof of capitalism’s continued dynamism\, even in the face of severe global economic crisis\, lay in the most successful and most celebrated high-tech corporations of the new information sector which really were restructuring and refashioning not only our ways of communicating but of working and consuming\, indeed ways of living. Yet precisely because this was taking place within the logics of capitalist accumulation and exploitation\, and through the reproduction of capitalist social relations\, this produced new contradictions and irrationalities. Perhaps none of these was greater than those revealed by the contrast between the investment\, planning\, and preparation that went into the interminable competitive race for ‘more speed’ by way of reducing latency in digital communications by so many milliseconds\, on the one hand\, and on the other the lack of investment\, planning\, and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic around the world.”   —From the Preface by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo \n  \n \nLEO PANITCH • 1945-2020 \nAll of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death this past December. Both this series and the Class\, Party\, Revolution Socialist Register series that will begin in March are presented in his memory; they represent a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted.This series is as significant as it is because so much of it was developed and edited with Leo Panitch.Community Restaurants: Decommodifying Food as Socialist Strategy\nPostcapitalism: Alternatives or Detours? \nPresentations by authors BENJAMIN SELWYN and GREG ALBO Sunday\, May 2\n2:00 to 4:00 PM (US East Coast DST) /6:00 to 8:00 PM (GMT) /7:00  to 9:00 PM (UK DST) \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject for the URL for the Zoom link to participate in any event or class of The MEP. Please note that all times are for the New York City Eastern Standard Time\, with GMT times posted next to the NYC times. \nWe do offer all sliding scale tiekets with an option to buy this year’s Socialist Register. The combined ticket and book prices include shipping (to the US and Puerto Rico only\, sorry). \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/socialist-register-2021-beyond-digital-capitalism-the-entire-series/2021-05-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Immigration,Labor History,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210501T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210427T220026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T220026Z
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: The Mass Strike Past and Present
DESCRIPTION:with Rafael Khachaturian\, Josué Ricardo López\, and Sami Zemni \nOften misread as a narrowly economic phenomenon\, Rosa understood general or mass strikes as harbingers of the revolution to come. The speakers in this fourth session reposition her analysis in the contexts of the United States Civil War\, the Arab Spring\, and the twenty-first century migrations northward through the American hemisphere. \nAuthors and essays discussed are: “The Living Pulsebeat of the Revolution”: Reading Luxemburg and Du Bois on the Strike”\, by Rafael Khachaturian; “Luxemburg on Tahrir Square: Reading the Arab Revolutions with Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike”\, by Sami Zemni\, Brecht De Smet\, and Koenraad Boegaert; and\, “Migrant Caravans and Luxemburg’s Spontaneous Mass Strike∏\, Josué Ricardo López \nRafael Khachaturian\, University of Pennsylvania; Sami Zemni\, Ghent University; Josué Ricardo López\, University of Pittsburgh \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url that gives the link to participate in this or another event or class. \nThe ebook of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg is now available. Please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive a discount code so as to purchase on-line.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-the-mass-strike-past-and-present/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Rosa Luxemburg,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210426T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210426T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210228T022016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T194520Z
UID:10006887-1619442000-1619447400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210424T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210416T041507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T061857Z
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, Session 3—Revolutionary Subjects
DESCRIPTION:with Robin D.G. Kelley\, Jane Ana Gordon\, Gunnef Kaan\, Maria Theresa Starzmann \nThis\, the third session of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg\, explores what it means to act as a revolutionary subject through analysis of Walter Rodney’s ambivalence about Rosa’s criticisms of revolutionary Russia\, critical consideration of Rosa’s writings on slave resistance\, indispensability for contemporary progressive politics in South Africa\, and turn to the other-than-human world to counteract the political violence of incarceration. \nGunnett Kaaf\, Marxist activist and a writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa; Maria Theresa Starzmann\,  Vera Institute of Justice; Jane Anna Gordon\, University of Connecticut; Robin D.G. Kelley\, UCLA \nThe essays from the new volume are “Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution and the Curious Case of Rosa Luxemburg”\, by Robin D. G. Kelley; “A Political Economy of the Damned: Reading Rosa Luxemburg on Slavery through a Creolizing Lens”\, Jane Anna Gordon; “One Hundred Years of Rosa Luxemburg’s Marxism: Imperialism and Lessons in Democracy for the ContemporarySouth African Left”\, Gunnett Kaaf; and\, “Rosa Luxemburg\, Nature\, and Imprisonment”\, Maria Theresia Starzmann \n  \n;
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-3-revolutionary-subjects/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Bolshevism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Financialization,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210419T143000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210228T022016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210415T194520Z
UID:10006886-1618837200-1618842600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Capitalism and the Sea
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World\nAn 8-Week Reading Group convened with Fred Murphy\nThe global ocean serves as a trade route\, strategic space\, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals\, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure\, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of carbon civilization – warming\, expanding\, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. We will read Liam Campling and Alejandro Colas’s new book Capitalism and the Sea\, in which they analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. \n \nLongtime socialist FRED MURPHY has led MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and the history of capitalism since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. \nSince this course will be conducted during NYC Daylight Savings Time\, the GMT times for these sessions will be 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm GMT. \n  \nAll classes and events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL for the zoom link for these sessions or other classes and events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-the-sea/2021-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Evolutionary biology,Extractivism,Globalization,Immigration,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Method,Science and Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210418T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210112T151307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T050102Z
UID:10006871-1618754700-1618761600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reinventing the Welfare State: Book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies\nUrsula Huws\nIn Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies Ursula Huws proposes a welfare state infused with social justice and equality\, including a redistributive UBI (universal basic income)\, decommodification of platforms and universal workers’ rights. With positivity and rigor\, she outlines a ‘digital welfare state’ for the 21st century\, which would involve a repurposing of online platform technologies under public control to modernise and expand public services\, and improve accessibility. \nUrsula Huws speaks with Todd Wolfson on creative ideas for reinventing the welfare state to address contemporary challenges in a session chaired by FireWorks Series editor\, and Editorial Director at Pluto Press\, David Castle. \nSliding scale pricing includes Ursula’s presentation\, the new book (inclusive of shipping — US and Puerto Rico only) \nWe do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org for the url of the zoom link for attending this talk if you cannot pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reinventing-the-welfare-state-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Immigration,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210417T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210417T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210416T035616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210416T035616Z
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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Session 2—Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Alyssa Adamson\, Drucilla Cornell\, and Peter Hudis\nThis second session of the Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series will critically revisit debates over the potential revolutionary value of nationalism through exploring different stages of the Global Southern reception of Rosa’s thoroughgoing internationalism. \nThe panel will consist of Alyssa Adamson of Malcolm X College\, Drucilla Cornell\, Rutgers University and Peter Hudis\, Oakton Community College. Their essays are “Against a Single History\, for a Revaluation of Power: Luxemburg\, James\, and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy” by Alyssa Adamson; “The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination”\, Drucilla Cornell; and\, “A Troubled Legacy: Rosa Luxemburg and the Non-Western World”\, Peter Hudis \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-2-debating-revolutionary-nationalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210411T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210228T025653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210228T025653Z
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SUMMARY:Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly with Editor Peter Cole
DESCRIPTION:In the early twentieth century\, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers\, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color\, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: “An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!” Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class. \nA brilliant union organizer and a humorous orator\, Benjamin Fletcher (1890–1949) was a tremendously important and well-loved African American member of the IWW during its heyday. Fletcher helped found and lead Local 8 of the IWW’s Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union\, unquestionably the most powerful interracial union of its era\, taking a principled stand against all forms of xenophobia and exclusion. \nFor years\, acclaimed historian Peter Cole has carefully researched the life of Ben Fletcher\, painstakingly uncovering a stunning range of documents related to this extraordinary man. Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly is the most comprehensive look at Fletcher ever to be published. It includes a detailed biographical sketch of his life and history\, reminiscences by fellow workers who knew him\, a chronicle of the IWW’s impressive decade-long run on the Philadelphia waterfront in which Fletcher played a pivotal role\, and nearly all of his known writings and speeches\, thus giving Fletcher’s timeless voice another opportunity to inspire a new generation of workers\, organizers\, and agitators. This revised and expanded second edition includes new materials such as facsimile reprints of two extremely rare pamphlets on racism from the early twentieth century\, more information on his prison years and personal life\, additional recollections from friends\, greater consideration of Fletcher from a global perspective\, and much more. \n“This stirring collection gives us the drama\, largely in his own exciting words\, of the life and work of black radical labor leader Ben Fletcher. It is a story of suffering\, fighting\, and organizing but also of thinking deeply and writing clearly about the social power of labor\, and particularly of maritime workers\, and the possibility of a world beyond racial division and class exploitation.”\n—David Roediger\, author of Class\, Race\, and Marxism \nPeter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University (USA) and a research associate in the Society\, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Cole is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. While the first edition of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly was published by Charles H. Kerr Press\, in 2006\, the revised and much expanded second edition has now been published by PM Press. He also is the founder and co-director of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project (CRR19). \n  \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Write info@marxedproject.org to obtain the URL of the zoom link for this event or any other class or event. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/ben-fletcher-the-life-and-times-of-a-black-wobbly-with-editor-peter-cole/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Immigration,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210410T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210410T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
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SUMMARY:Introducing Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with Drucilla Cornell and Jane Gordon
DESCRIPTION:“I Have A Thousand More Things I Want To Say To You.”\nAn introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with\nDrucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon\, moderated by Bernabe S. Mendoza\nSession One of a six part series.\nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist of the last century. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new understanding of the complexities of revolution. \nDRUCILLA CORNELL Professor Emeritus\, Rutgers University; JANE ANNA GORDON\, University of Connecticut \nSessions Moderator: BERNABE S. MENDOZA\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Rutgers University
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introducing-creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-with-drucilla-cornell-and-jane-gordon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210329T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210329T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210322T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210309T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210309T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210228T024305Z
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SUMMARY:Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality. A discussion of Volume 2 with Jeff B. Perry
DESCRIPTION:Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality\, 1918-1927\nA discussion Volume 2 with author Jeffrey B. Perry\nRESCHEDULED FROM FEBRIARY 23\nInterviewed by Sean Ahern\nDr. Jeffrey B. Perry will be interviewed by Sean Ahern on his new book Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality\, 1918-1927(Columbia University Press\, December 2020). The book follows Dr. Perry’s earlier Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918. Together\, these two volumes comprise what is believed to be the first\, full-life\, two volume biography of an Afro-Caribbean and only the fourth of an Afro-American after those of Booker T. Washington\, W. E. B. Du Bois\, and Langston Hughes. \nIn this second volume of his acclaimed biography\, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison’s life\, from 1918 to 1927. Perry details Harrison’s literary and political activities\, foregrounding his efforts against white supremacy and for racial consciousness and unity in struggles for equality and radical social change. The book explores Harrison’s role in the militant New Negro Movement and the International Colored Unity League\, as well as his prolific work as a writer\, educator\, and editor of the New Negro and the Negro World. Perry examines Harrison’s interactions with major figures such as Garvey\, Randolph\, J. A. Rogers\, Arthur Schomburg\, and other prominent individuals and organizations as he agitated\, educated\, and organized for democracy and equality from a race-conscious\, radical internationalist perspective. This magisterial biography demonstrates how Harrison’s life and work continue to offer profound insights on race\, class\, religion\, immigration\, war\, democracy\, and social change in America. \nJeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar and archivist. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883–1918 (Columbia\, 2008) and the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (2001)\, and he preserved and placed Harrison’s papers. He is also the literary executor for Theodore W. Allen\, preserved and placed his papers\, and edited and introduced the expanded 2012 edition of Allen’s two-volume The Invention of the White Race. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject\,org to receive the URL of the zoom link to participate in this class or any other event or class for access.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hubert-harrison-the-struggle-for-equality-a-discussion-of-volume-2-with-jeff-b-perry/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T163000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20210112T145200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T043714Z
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame: Pluto FireWorks series book + talk special
DESCRIPTION:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State\nBy Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani\, Kerem Nisancioglu\, Kojo Koram\, Dalia Gebrial\, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha\nCo-authors Gargi Bhattacharyya et al. highlight how the lens of racism and the politics of race offer the sharpest focus to explain why movements against colonial legacies and state violence coincide with rising authoritarian regimes\,. \nChaired by FireWorks Series editor\, Wilf Sullivan (Race Equality Officer\, Trades Union Congress\, London). \nIn this moment of profound overlapping crises\, the landscape of politics and entitlement is rapidly remade. Several leading scholars powerfully intervene in debates on racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the ‘hostile environment’ policy and Brexit referendum throw the centrality of race into sharp relief\, discussions of racism have too often focus on individual behaviours. Bringing to the fore broad political and economic contexts\, the authors trace ways in which empire’s legacies have been reshaped by global capitalism\, the digital environment and instability in the nation-state. Engaging with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements\, Empire’s Endgame offers an original perspective on race\, media\, the state and criminalisation\, and a political vision that includes — rather than expels — in the face of crisis. \nThis is the fourth in the Pluto Press FireWorks series. \nAttend the talk and receive the book (shipping included—US and Puerto Rico only) \nThis is sliding scale\, We do not deny admission to those who do not have the ability to pay. Write to info@marxedproject to receive the url for attending by zoom if at this point you are unable to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-pluto-fireworks-series-book-talk-special/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210301T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210222T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T170647
CREATED:20201109T161432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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