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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-05-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-05-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-30/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:Worn Out: Retail Workers vs. Digital Surveillance
DESCRIPTION:A video of this April 29\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nWith Author Madison Van Oort\nBeneath the success of fast fashion\, a grimmer story is told by Madison Van Oort in Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back. Going undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City\, she observed firsthand how data and surveillance shape the lives of the people who do the actual producing and selling. Van Oort’s interviews with dozens of front line workers and labor activists show how workers are fighting back\, and her research exposes the exploitative reality of retail labor as digital tools lubricate the shift toward just-in-time retail by collecting real-time data on not only customer behavior but also worker performance. Automated scheduling platforms\, biometric time clocks\, and cashier metrics increase these workers’ already heightened insecurity. One of the first ethnographies of this “thriving” industry\, Worn Out pulls open the curtain between production and consumption and reveals the real cost of fast fashion. \nMadison Van Oort is a researcher based in Minneapolis. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2018\, and her academic writing has appeared in the journals Critical Sociology\, Ethnography\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society as well as the anthology Captivating Technology: Race\, Carceral Technoscience\, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Worn Out is her first book. \nWorn Out is available from the publisher\, MIT Press.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/worn-out/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Artificial Intelligence AI,automation,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Precarity,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T120000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T120000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T133000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (second series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts III and IV of Capital\, volume 1\nJoin us in a close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital – already in progress – guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This spring\, we are reading Parts III and IV\, on the production of absolute and relative surplus value. Each week\, we recap the passages covered at the previous session\, introduce new material\, and open up a discussion. We read the more challenging sections together a paragraph or two at a time. Supplementary materials and/or questions for reflection are circulated prior to each week’s session\, and the conversation continues in the group’s Slack channel. \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nReview our Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-i-series2/2023-04-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T120000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T120000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-04-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230402T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T133000
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T153000
DTSTAMP:20230323T182706Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-03-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \nLisa Maya Knauer has been involved with Marxist education in New York for her entire adult life\, and has taught a variety of classes at the MEP and its predecessors. Her current activist work focuses on immigrant workers’ rights and indigenous struggles for land and water. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-01-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Arise: Power\, Strategy and Union Resurgence
DESCRIPTION:with author Jane Holgate\nIn Arise\, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organizing experience\, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice\, leadership and union democracy to politics\, tactics and the agency afforded to the majority of union members. \nIn the midst of a neoliberal era of economic crisis and political upheaval\, the labor movement stands at a crossroads. Union membership is on the rise\, but the ‘turn to organizing’ has largely failed to translate into meaningful gains for workers. There is much discussion about the lack of collectivism among workers due to casualization\, gig work and precarity\, yet these conditions were standard in the UK when workers built the foundations of the 19th-century trade union movement. \nDrawing on history and case studies of unions developing the effective use of power\, Jane Holgate’s book lays out strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers’ struggle\, the chapters of Arise demonstrate that transformational change is not only possible\, but within reach. \nJANE HOLGATE is Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Leeds. She is the co-editor of Union Voices: Developing Organizing in the UK (Ithaca 2012) and has held a number of positions in the trade union movement as an NGA “mother of chapel”\, Unison branch chair and regional council delegate\, UCU caseworker and secretary of Hackney Trades Union Council. She has worked closely on research projects with trade unions\, including the GMB\, TGWU\, CWU\, Bectu\, Usdaw and the Trades Union Congress. \nDiscount code for purchasing from Pluto: MEP \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/arise-power-strategy-and-union-resurgence/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-05-03/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:El Golpe: US Labor\, the CIA\, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:by Rob McKenzie with Patrick Dunne\nTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in Mexico\nEarly in my research\, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me\, “Don’t give up. They are hiding something”…’ \n \nIt’s 1990\, and US labor is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumors of a violent confrontation at the Mexican Ford Assembly plant on January 8 reach the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the US: nine employees had been shot by a group of drunken thugs and gangsters\, in an act of political repression which changed the course of Mexican and US workers’ rights forever. Rob McKenzie was working at the Ford Twin Cities Assembly plant in Minnesota when he heard of the attack. He didn’t believe the official story\, and began a years-long investigation to uncover the truth. His findings took him further than he expected – all the way to the doors of the CIA. \nVirtually unknown outside of Mexico\, the full story of ‘El Golpe’\, or ‘The Coup’\, is a dark tale of political intrigue that still resonates today. \nRob McKenzie worked at the Twin City Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul\, Minnesota as an assembler\, electrician and full-time union representative. In 1998 he became President of his United Auto Workers branch\, and later was elected to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Executive Board. \nPatrick Dunne is a graduate in History from the University of Cambridge\, with a dissertation on ‘The AFL-CIO and the Coup against Allende’. \n  \nDiscount code for the book at plutobooks.com = MEP \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/el-golpe-us-labor-the-cia-and-the-coup-at-ford-in-mexico/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Insurgency,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Latin America,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-26/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim Our Digital Future from Big Tech
DESCRIPTION:With author James Muldoon\nA bold new manifesto for digital technology after capitalism\n“A punchy analysis of the platform economy that offers more than a critique of big tech’s vision of our collective future. Muldoon sketches  the contours of a democratic socialist alternative.”\n— Aaron Benanav\, Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin and author of Automation and the Future of Work \n“Encourages us to open our minds fully to the possibility of an alternative future\, in which technology is put to work for the many\, not the few’\n— Lizzie O’Shea\, lawyer and author of Future Histories \nWhoever controls the platforms\, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders\, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users. \nJames Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas from the local to the international for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes\, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there. \n JAMES MULDOON is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Exeter\, Head of Digital Research at Autonomy\, and YouTube philosopher at Political Philosophy. He also works directly with digital businesses transitioning to fair work practices. His writing has appeared in the Guardian\, Time magazine and the Huffington Post.  \nFor a discount on James’ book: plutobooks.com\nDiscount code: MEP\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you choose to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/platform-socialism-how-to-reclaim-our-digital-future-from-big-tech/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:automation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Globalization,Labor Process,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-19/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-04-12/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Marx’s Grundrisse: Last two weeks until spring term
DESCRIPTION:Notebook 3: two more sessions until the next term\nNewcomers are welcome to join this diverse\, and very welcoming  international group of reading discussants when you are able \n“Forces of production and social relations – two different sides of the development of the social individual – appear to capital as mere means\, and are merely means for it to produce on its limited foundation. In fact\, however\, they are the material conditions to blow this foundation sky-high…” —Karl Marx\, The Grundrisse \nPerhaps the most curious and least understood aspect of Marx’s work is his method of analysis. Marx viewed all his economic laws as tendencies and it is hard to deny that those tendencies are becoming more and more the realities of today’s capitalism. However\, to understand our society we need to do more than reading and accepting his concepts\, we must critically analyze them and look for the way of thinking that produced them. It is with this goal in my mind that we should embark on a journey through the long and complex sentences of the Grundrisse. This work is perhaps the best representation of the process of thinking that found its culmination in Capital and we will be engaging with it during our study. Without a doubt\, this will be a long and arduous process but we should always keep in mind that “there is no royal road to science and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. Continuing on December 4\,  we will read from “The Chapter on Money” utilizing the Penguin edition of Marx’s Grundrisse. Recordings of prior sessions are available to all who would like to review. These sessions are open to people joining when possible. We are attempting to read and thoroughly discuss each Notebook in a series of 10-12 week sessions.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-grundrisse-2nd-session/2022-04-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Grundrisse,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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