Marxist Method
Last night: Seven Essential Steps in Marx’s Dialectical Method
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY“My aim throughout goes beyond explaining Marx’s method to helping people think, study and act more dialectically. ”
—Bertell Ollman
What Is Capitalism?
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY...if we don’t define what capitalism is then what does it means to be ”anti-capitalist”? Don’t we first have to know what something is to know what it is we’re against? Otherwise, how can we ever know if the movement we’re building is based on strategies, tactics, issues and demands that, even if successful, will actually move us beyond capitalism instead of once again simply reinforcing its rule?
Working The Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centers
Interference Archive 131 8th Street, No. 4, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThe talk includes three parts: first, it makes an argument for the use of workers’ inquiry as a method to study contemporary work conditions, in this case involving an undercover activist ethnography; second, it draws on heterodox and critical Marxist theory to understand the transformation of work; third, it focuses on the challenges of resistance and organization in contemporary work through a concrete example.
The Three Worlds of Social Democracy
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynThe Three Worlds of Social Democracy offers cutting-edge case studies to present a truly global exploration of the methods, meanings, and limits of social democracy. It also explores the potential for left alternatives to social democracy and the dangers of surging right-wing populism.