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SUMMARY:A People's Guide to Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Summer introductory sessions on the political economy of capitalism\nIn 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%. Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest and most efficient economic and political system ever to grace the planet. Despite the efforts of mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise\, growing numbers have begun to question why this system has produced vast inequality\, recurring war\, and wanton disregard for the destruction of our planet. Hadas Thier’s book develops answers to these questions\, grounded in  key concepts from Marx’s Capital and related works. \n“A People’s Guide to Capitalism is a breath of fresh air on the left. Avoiding the obscure jargon of economics\, Hadas Thier provides a rich\, accessible introduction to how capitalism works. Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance\, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy. Along the way\, Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism. In addition\, A People’s Guide to Capitalism reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on Marx’s Capital\, political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, history\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/peoples-guide-to-capitalism-2026/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,featured,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Imperialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026,Summer 2026
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SUMMARY:Protective Presence in the West Bank
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nThe only people standing beside the Palestinians of the West Bank as they defend themselves from ethnic cleansing are protective presence activists. Celeste Marcus and Mitch Abidor have both spent time in the West Bank doing protective presence\, accompanying Palestinians in their fields and with their flocks and confronting settlers who are far less likely to kill and even attack Palestinians if protective presence activists are on the ground. Mitch and Celeste will be discussing their experiences and their new organization\, Protective Presence USA\, which is assisting Americans in joining this effort to fight off the annexation of Palestinian land. \nMitch Abidor is a writer and translator. His latest book is Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary. He’s currently working on an oral history of the Israeli socialist anti-Zionist organization Matzpen. \nCeleste Marcus is the executive editor of Liberties Journal and the author of Chaim Soutine: Genius\, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art. She has written widely about settler terrorism in the West Bank.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/protective-presence/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Colonialism,Imperialism,Israeli occupation,Organizing,Palestine,Present Moment,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Special Event,Spring 2026,Video Available,War
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SUMMARY:Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos
DESCRIPTION:Live event concluded\, but you may watch the recording on YouTube.\nWill green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? “Clean” technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment\, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition. These dilemmas are most dramatic at the extractive frontiers of green capitalism: where the natural resources needed to manufacture electric vehicles and build windmills are extracted. \nThea Riofrancos\, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism\, unpacks these challenges through the lens of lithium\, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. With forecasters predicting an enormous surge in lithium demand\, exceeding existing supplies\, Global North governments and downstream firms scramble to “secure” lithium\, resulting in a new state-corporate alliance and the return of vertical integration. \nMeanwhile\, Global South governments are attempting to leverage critical mineral deposits into sustainable and sovereign economic development. And\, across the world\, environmental and Indigenous movements contest the rapid expansion of extraction\, defending ecosystems\, livelihoods\, and waterways already under pressure from global warming from a new boom in mining. It is in the play of these forces\, unfolding amidst geopolitical rivalry and economic turbulence\, that the energy transition will be forged. To conclude\, Riofrancos will explore the possibility of a less mining-intensive pathway to zero-carbon transportation. \nThea Riofrancos is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College\, a Strategic Co-Director of the Climate and Community Institute\, and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Her research focuses on resource extraction\, renewable energy\, climate change\, the global lithium sector\, green technologies\, social movements\, and the Latin American left. She is also the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador and the coauthor of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. Her writings have appeared in scholarly journals and in the New York Times\, Financial Times\, Foreign Policy\, n+1\, and Dissent.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/extraction-a-book-talk-with-author-thea-riofrancos/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Book talks,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Special Event,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Roundtable on Venezuela\, Oil\, and Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:A video of this January 21\, 2026\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation’s oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of “blood for oil.” Steve Maher assesses the implications for global political economy\, Christy Thornton offers analysis of the diverse effects on – and responses by – Mexico and other Latin American states\, and Camilo Pérez-Bustillo explores the relationship between U.S imperial aggression in Latin America and terror against migrants at home. \nMatt Huber is Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University and the author of Lifeblood: Oil\, Freedom\, and the Forces of Capital\, and Climate Change as Class War. \nSteve Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. With Scott Aquanno he is the co-author of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Steve also authored Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power. \nChristy Thornton is Associate Professor of History at New York University\, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy. Christy is also the co-director\, with Quinn Slobodian\, of the History and Political Economy Project. She served for five years as Executive Director of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). \nCamilo Pérez-Bustillo is the co-founder and coordinator of the International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement (Mexico City). He is also the leading translator into English of work by Argentine/Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel\, including The Theological Metaphors of Marx (Duke\, 2024)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/venezuela-oil-politics/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Extractivism,Immigration,Imperialism,Latin America,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Political Economy,Populism,Present Moment,Seminars and Talks,Video Available,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 2\, Witness
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nA video of this June 21\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains\, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep\,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later\, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. Do we still sleep in Debord’s spectacle\, a world of images\, infinitely consumable and reproducible\, devoid of meaning outside the hollow\, homogenous temporality of the commodity? Or have we entered an age where the audience is more appropriately conceived\, not as isolated onlookers\, but as a network of users–with unprecedented access to digital information while subjected to pervasive forms of control and surveillance? Does “a critical theory of the spectacle” still allow us to make sense of shared sensorial flashpoints\, past and present? And what does it mean to be a spectator–to regard\, to look\, to witness? In two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics\, stadiums to camptowns\, polar expeditions to spring festivals\, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders\, assassinations and squares.  \nThe second panel\, “Witness\,” asks how various spectral presences–of memory\, rebellion\, interiority\, history–demand us to account for spectacle’s reversals\, negations\, and reenactments in mass protests and counter-spectacles. Is the society of the spectacle necessarily also one of bearing witness?  In “Delineating Specters\,” Javier Porras Madero considers how the conjuration and nationalization of specters deepened the contradictions of border formation in the decades following the Mexican Revolution. In “Spectacles of Sympathy\,” Morgan E. Freeman analyzes human interest stories produced in the age of polar exploration to consider this genre as a vehicle for mythologies of the bourgeoisie. In “Spectacular Reversal\,” Damanpreet Pelia reflects on the spectacle of political violence by tracking the spectral presence of the bāz (from the Persian for hawk) in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh in 1984. In “The Spectacle of the Mass Demonstration\,” Michael Denning reflects on Marx’s account of mass demonstrations and universal suffrage in the wake of a decade of occupations: citizens in the streets and elected populists as the religion of everyday life. In “Detouring the US Military Camptown\,” Madeleine Han explores tourism as memory work toward remembering the US military’s legacy and ongoing occupation of Korea. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research collective that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented our work at the Left Forum\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text‘s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Our current members are: Damanpreet Pelia (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research interests include religion\, sovereignty\, and empire); Henry Zhang (doctoral researcher in English; research focuses on the aesthetics of post-war memory and post-socialist transition in East Asia and its diaspora during the long cold war); Jane Zhang (doctoral researcher in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies; research focuses on the intersecting history of medicine\, consumer culture\, and notions of selfhood); Javier Porras Madero (doctoral researcher in Latin American history; research focuses on revolution and border formation); Jess Cruz (doctoral researcher in History; research focuses on the history of Miami\, Florida as a center for the Latin American Right across the 1980s-1990s); Madeleine Han (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research focuses on US militarism\, cold war cultures\, and overlapping imperialisms in Asia); Michael Denning (professor of American Studies; research focuses on labor\, critical theory\, and social movements); Morgan E. Freeman (doctoral researcher in American Studies; her research focuses on the contemporary art and visual cultures of Black and Native practitioners as it relates to belonging and place specificity); Sofia Cutler (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research traces the cultural and political history of last-mile delivery–or the last-leg of a product’s long journey across supply chains to a customer’s front door; and Suvij Sudershan (doctoral researcher in English and Film; research focuses on 19th and 20th century global anglophone\, francophone\, and South Asian vernacular literature\, the development of the novel\, ideas of realism and modernism\, and the depiction of peasant revolt and rural modernization).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-2025-2/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,American Imperialism,Art and politics,Asia,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,Imperialism,Marxisms,Modernity,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Spring 25,Urbanism,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Through the Lens of Spectacle: Panel 1\, Oversight
DESCRIPTION:Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture\nA video of this June 15\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n“The spectacle is the bad dream of modern society in chains\, expressing nothing more than its wish for sleep\,” Guy Debord declared in The Society of the Spectacle (1967): it is “a permanent opium war.” A half-century later\, the specter of the spectacle continues to haunt Marxist cultural studies. Do we still sleep in Debord’s spectacle\, a world of images\, infinitely consumable and reproducible\, devoid of meaning outside the hollow\, homogenous temporality of the commodity? Or have we entered an age where the audience is more appropriately conceived\, not as isolated onlookers\, but as a network of users–with unprecedented access to digital information while subjected to pervasive forms of control and surveillance? Does “a critical theory of the spectacle” still allow us to make sense of shared sensorial flashpoints\, past and present? And what does it mean to be a spectator–to regard\, to look\, to witness? In two linked panels\, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture proposes to track “the worldwide division of spectacular tasks” from lens manufacture to retail logistics\, stadiums to camptowns\, polar expeditions to spring festivals\, as well as revolutionary specters in novels and borders\, assassinations and squares.  \nThe first panel\, “Oversight\,” considers the dual meanings of oversight: as surveillance – “watching over” – and as that which is missed – “overlooked.” In “That Superficial\, Theatric Sense\,” Suvij Sudershan opens by exploring the resonances of spectacle and speculation in reflections on revolutions from Edmund Burke to Lukács. In “Roving Eyes: The Stereoscopic Vision of War\,” Jane Zhang examines the production and marketing of optical lens to offer an alternative history of stereoscopic vision. In a pre-history of our contemporary era of Amazon last-mile delivery and e-commerce\, “From Errand to Spectacle\,” Sofia Cutler follows the delivery drivers who serviced elite white women shopping at early 20th-century department stores to show how their labor transformed shopping. In “Vita Contemplativa: Beijing Coma and China’s Modern Constitution\,” Henry Zhang explores Ma Jian’s anatomy of the student movement and its aftermath. In “Arenas of Conflict” Jess Cruz traces the unexpected uses of Miami’s stadiums and their links to the city’s multigenerational devotion to anti-communism and transnational right-wing politics. \nThe Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture is an interdisciplinary cultural studies research collective that has been practicing at Yale University since 2003. Over the years\, we have presented our work at the Left Forum\, Historical Materialism\, the Marxist Education Project\, Occupy Boston\, and the World Social Forum. Past projects have appeared as “Going into Debt\,” online in Social Text‘s Periscope\, and as “Spaces and Times of Occupation” in Transforming Anthropology; a collective interview regarding “Matters of Life and Death” was published in Revue Française d’Études Américaines. Our current members are: Damanpreet Pelia (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research interests include religion\, sovereignty\, and empire); Henry Zhang (doctoral researcher in English; research focuses on the aesthetics of post-war memory and post-socialist transition in East Asia and its diaspora during the long cold war); Jane Zhang (doctoral researcher in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies; research focuses on the intersecting history of medicine\, consumer culture\, and notions of selfhood); Javier Porras Madero (doctoral researcher in Latin American history; research focuses on revolution and border formation); Jess Cruz (doctoral researcher in History; research focuses on the history of Miami\, Florida as a center for the Latin American Right across the 1980s-1990s); Madeleine Han (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research focuses on US militarism\, cold war cultures\, and overlapping imperialisms in Asia); Michael Denning (professor of American Studies; research focuses on labor\, critical theory\, and social movements); Morgan E. Freeman (doctoral researcher in American Studies; her research focuses on the contemporary art and visual cultures of Black and Native practitioners as it relates to belonging and place specificity); Sofia Cutler (doctoral researcher in American Studies; research traces the cultural and political history of last-mile delivery–or the last-leg of a product’s long journey across supply chains to a customer’s front door; and Suvij Sudershan (doctoral researcher in English and Film; research focuses on 19th and 20th century global anglophone\, francophone\, and South Asian vernacular literature\, the development of the novel\, ideas of realism and modernism\, and the depiction of peasant revolt and rural modernization).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/yale-wggc-2025-1/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,American Imperialism,Art and politics,Asia,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,featured,Globalization,Imperialism,Marxisms,Modernity,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Spring 25,Urbanism,Video Available
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SUMMARY:Trump\, the State\, and Global Capital
DESCRIPTION:A video of this April 19\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA conversation with Steve Maher and Clara Mattei\nIn the early weeks of the Trump administration in the United States we have seen on-again\, off-again tariffs\, bluster against longstanding allies and friendly approaches to erstwhile foes\, alarming threats to civil liberties and press freedom\, accelerating deportations of immigrant workers\, mass firings and layoffs of Federal employees\, dismantling of key Federal agencies\, and indifference toward threats of measles and bird-flu epidemics – and that’s only a partial list. Looking at all this through a Marxist lens presents a major challenge\, but who better to meet it than Steve Maher and Clara Mattei\, whose historical analyses of finance capital and the capitalist state have garnered well-deserved praise. Join us as we engage Steve and Clara in an open-ended conversation aimed at bringing some clarity to the burgeoning chaos that is shaking up U.S. and global capitalism and the imperialist state system. \nStephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. With Scott Aquanno he is the co-author of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock. Steve also authored Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power. \nClara E. Mattei is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. She is Professor of Economics and Director of the recently inaugurated Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at The University of Tulsa. She previously taught at the The New School for Social Research and was a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/trump-global-capital/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-fascism,Austerity,Capital Studies,Crisis,Financialization,Globalization,Hegemony,Imperialism,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Migration,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Populism,Seminars and Talks,US History,Video Available,Winter 25
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SUMMARY:'The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads' with author Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nKevin B. Anderson presents his newly published book\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads\, based on systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s “Ethnological Notebooks” and related Marx texts from his final years\, 1869-1883. \nIn these writings\, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts\, turning his attention to colonialism\, agrarian Russia and India\, Indigenous societies\, and gender. Anderson’s book focuses on how the late Marx sees a wider revolution that included the European proletariat but would be touched off by revolts by oppressed ethno-racial groups\, peasant communes\, and Indigenous communist groups\, in many of which women held great social power. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities that continues to speak to us today. \nThe Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism is available from Verso and from other online booksellers. \nKevin B. Anderson teaches at University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has been a scholar-activist since the 1970s\, working in social and political theory\, especially Marx\, Hegel\, Lenin\, Luxemburg\, Marxist humanism\, and the Frankfurt School. Among his numerous books are Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism (1995)\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (with Janet Afary\, 2005)\, and Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism\, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies (2010/2016). He is is the coeditor\, with Peter Hudis\, of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader. He writes regularly for New Politics\, The International Marxist-Humanist\, LA Progressive\, and Jacobin.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/late-marx-revolutionary-roads/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Colonialism,communism,historical materialism,Imperialism,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Modernity,Political Economy,Political Strategy,Race and Class,Russia,Seminars and Talks,Winter 25
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: On the History of Capitalist 'Reforms'
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this October 13\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nGiampaolo Conte presents A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms\, just published by Routledge. Since the recent financial crises\, the expression “liberal reform” has come to evoke austerity and economic malaise\, especially for the working classes and a segment of the middle class. Conte’s historical research demonstrates that the chief purpose of such reforms has been to integrate semi-peripheral states into the capitalist world-economy. Rules\, institutions\, attitudes\, and procedures are imposed in accord with the economic and political interests of capitalist élites and hegemonic states – first by Britain\, then by the United States. In all situations\, the velvet glove barely conceals the armored fist. The goals and methods – more or less the same today as 300 years ago – promote the ongoing dissolution of traditional societies in the peripheries of the contemporary world. \n“A fascinating account of state debt as a mechanism in international relations forcing liberal reforms on the capitalist periphery\, doing away with ways of social life in conflict with the requirements of modern capital formation. Contains striking historical material from countries like Egypt and China during Polanyi’s Long Nineteenth Century.” – Wolfgang Streeck\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies \nGiampaolo Conte teaches in Department of Philosophy\, Communication and Performing Arts at the University of Rome 3. He is a Research Associate of ISEM-CNR\, and editorial assistant for The Journal of European Economic History.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-talk-on-the-history-of-capitalist-reforms/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Fall24,featured,History,Imperialism,Modernity,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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