Marxisms
Capital, V1, Part 2: The Transformation of Money Into Capital
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participantsWe will do a close reading of the chapters in Part Two of Volume I of Capital on “The Transformation of Money Into Capital”. In these chapters Marx introduces the fundamental concepts of capital,labor power, surplus value and the valorization process.
Grundrisse: The Chapter on Money (The first two notebooks)
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants“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
Everyone a Legislator with author Michael Denning
Online: Zoom link will be provided to registered participants“Perhaps Gramsci’s political science is … a “necessary expression of his time, the short twentieth century, an era now ended, the ae of three words divided between Fordist capitalism, bureaucratic communism and the post-colonial settlements of decolonization. If this is true, is there a future for Gramsci’s legacy?” —Michael Denning
Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy with Anitra Nelson
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYWhat might a world beyond the discipline and constraints of the market look and feel like? How would it operate to meet our basic needs? Moving from production for trade (for the market) to production on demand, activist scholar Anitra Nelson advocates a community mode of production and calls on us to ‘occupy the world’. Come along to hear about and engage in this lively intervention in current debates on postcapitalist futures.
The Marx Revival: John Bellamy Foster and Marcello Musto
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThe Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations
A focus on Ecology with John Bellamy Foster and a presentation on Communism with Marcello Musto.
“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility, haughty dismissal and marginal course adoption, selective co-optation and selective bowdlerization: these are some of the strategies of establishment intellectuals over the years in response to the challenger of the thinker born 204 years ago in Trier. Yet, here we are near the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, and it sometimes seems that Karl Marx’s ideas have never been as topical, or as commanding of respect and interest, as they are today.” —Marcello Musto, from the Preface, The Marx Revival
Jean Jaurès and the Socialist History of the French Revolution
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYVideo available: https://youtu.be/mtT8owRC5Fw
Jean Jaurès's magisterial work, A Socialist History of the French Revolution, has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts ever published. Mitchell Abidor's abridged translation of the original six-volume work makes this new edition truly accessible to an Anglophone audience. Geoff Kurtz, author of a 2014 biography of Jaurès, joins Mitch for a conversation about the History and the author's life and times.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis study group is reading and discussing Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism.