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SUMMARY:Marxism and Planetary Crises: New Works\, New Debates
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group resumes consideration of capitalism’s catastrophic impact on the Earth’s climate and other critical systems\, and ecosocialist strategies to challenge it. In eight weekly sessions beginning April 24\, we will address important new work in ecological Marxism and environmental justice\, with chapters from and critical reviews of these books\, along with recently published essays by Andreas Malm and others: \n\nJohn Bellamy Foster\, The Dialectics of Ecology: Socialism and Nature\nShourideh C. Molavi\, Environmental Warfare in Gaza\nAjay Singh Chaudhary\, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World\nKohei Saito\, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto\nAshley Dawson\, Environmentalism From Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet\n\nAll are welcome – participation in previous sessions is not required. Final session is June 19 – contact us if you wish to join. \nConvened by Fred Murphy\, who has co-led recurring ecosocialist sessions with Steve Knight since 2016. Fred studied and taught historical sociology at The New School for Social Research.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxism-and-planetary-crises-new-works-new-debates/2024-06-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Colonialism,Ecosocialism,Extractivism,Globalization,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Summer24
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic III
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this summer with a reading of the third and final part of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. This is the discussion of the Notion culminating in the Absolute Idea. There will be a review session for recurring students as well as those who missed Part I\, Being\, and Part II\, Essence. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. \nAlex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nEight weekly sessions will introduce what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. He has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-science-of-logic-3/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,featured,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza,Summer24
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SUMMARY:The Circulation of Capital: Volume II of Marx's Capital
DESCRIPTION:In Volume I of Capital\, Marx analyzes the processes of capitalist production and accumulation and identifies the real sources of wealth: nature and the labor performed by working people. In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, he addresses the next big question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place\, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met\, in the necessary proportions\, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer\, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society. Marx thereby lays the groundwork for the system-wide analyses in Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \nWe welcome all who have a basic knowledge of Volume I of Capital to this ongoing weekly study group. Participants are closely reading and discussing Volume II\, guided by Fred Murphy and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants read other sections on their own\, and we summarize and discuss when we meet. The series is ongoing until we have read the entire book. At present we are reading Part Three\, “The Reproduction and Circulation of the Total Social Capital.” \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Fred has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nRSVP below to join the group in progress. There is no registration fee but a suggested donation of $50 or whatever amount you can afford will help support the work of the MEP.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-ii-4-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,historical materialism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Summer24
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SUMMARY:A Prime Competitor: Understanding Amazon’s Market Power
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this November 20\, 2024\, event is available on our YouTube channel. \nStephen Maher and Scott Aquanno present an innovative analysis of Amazon’s market power\, drawing on major themes from Marx’s Capital\, volume 2. In a recent report prepared for Amazon Worker Solidarity\, they challenge understandings of “monopoly” common in mainstream economics as well as among sections of the left. \nAmazon’s “bigness” and lack of a direct competitor would seem to suggest that it should be considered a monopoly. And yet\, far from exhibiting the tell-tale signs of increasing monopoly prices\, inefficiency\, and technological stagnation\, Amazon has engaged in cutthroat price competition\, built a highly efficient and technologically advanced logistics system\, and unleashed competitive forces whose effects have reverberated across the retail sector and beyond. Moreover\, Amazon’s distinct vertically integrated structure\, competing across a range of sectors including retail\, e-commerce\, logistics\, online search engines\, and media entertainment – each dominated by large firms – suggests that today’s giant corporations are not significantly encumbered by barriers to entry. \nStephen Maher is Assistant Professor of Economics at SUNY Cortland\, and Co-Editor of the Socialist Register. With Scott Aquanno he co-authored The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (Verso\, 2024). Steve is also the author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Palgrave\, 2022). \nScott Aquanno is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ontario Tech University\, and a Visiting Associate at the Global Labour Research Centre at York University. With Stephen Maher he co-authored The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (Verso\, 2024). Scott is also the author of Crisis of Risk: Subprime Debt and US Financial Power from 1944 to Present (Edward Elgar\, 2021).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/amazon-market-power/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Das Kapital,Fall24,featured,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Translating 'Capital' for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this December 14\, 2024\, event is available on YouTube. \nThe appearance of a new English-language edition of Marx’s Capital\, Volume I\, translated by Paul Reitter and edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter\, has been a momentous occasion. Join a conversation with Reitter and noted Marx scholar Michael Heinrich on the challenges of translating Marx for 21st century readers\, the weaknesses and strengths of earlier translations\, and the ways the new edition can help us understand Marx’s analyses of capital and value. \nPaul Reitter is Professor of Germanic languages and literatures at The Ohio State University\, where his scholarship focuses on German-Jewish culture and the history of higher education. He is the author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe; On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred\, and Bambi’s Jewish Roots: Essays on German-Jewish Culture. \nMichael Heinrich served on the Editorial Board for the new edition of Capital. He taught economics in Berlin and was managing editor of PROKLA: Journal for Critical Social Science. He is the author of a number of books on Marx and Capital\, including An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital\, Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society\, and The Science of Value: Marx’s Critique of Political Economy between Scientific Revolution and Classical Tradition.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/translating-capital/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Das Kapital,Engels,Fall24,featured,Intro to Marxism,Literary Studies,Marx,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250104T160000
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SUMMARY:Marx Miniseries: The 'Resultate'
DESCRIPTION:Having completed a year-long study of Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, the MEP’s Capital Studies Group is closely reading the chapter Marx omitted from the original book. Titled “Results of the Immediate Process of Production” and often referred to by the German Resultate\, this long chapter was published as an Appendix to the Penguin edition of Capital I. It can be read as a bridge between volumes 1 and 2 of Capital and presents a number of concepts in greater depth\, including the distinctions between productive and unproductive labor and between “formal” and “real” subsumption of labor to capital. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Lisa Maya Knauer.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-miniseries-the-resultate/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:_Seasons,Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Das Kapital,Fall24,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T160000
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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:Marx's Capital Volume 1: A Short Course for Today
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, February 1 – April 26 \n\nHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital\, Vol 1\, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer will facilitate as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This reading group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. \n\nLisa Maya Knauer\, our facilitator\, 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. \nThis group is approaching completion – please email info@marxedproject.org if you still wish to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxs-capital-volume-1-short-course-for-today/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Winter 25
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T200000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume III
DESCRIPTION:Volume III of Capital – The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole – integrates and completes Marx’s analysis\, enabling us to understand and make sense of how the phenomena we see occurring on the surface of society are related to the underlying system of capitalism. It is essential to understanding the current moment of late capitalist/imperialist development\, in which we see the rise of rentier and finance capital and the commodification of debt; continuously rising prices that bring still more poverty and starvation; new technologies turned into means of extracting rents; the privatization of public spaces\, properties and institutions; and the list goes on. \nParticipants in this long-running study group have been closely reading and discussing Volume III\, using a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we do a line-by-line reading with pauses for questions and commentary. Participants read other sections on their own\, along with occasional supplemental materials such as passages from Beverley Best’s highly praised companion to Volume III\, The Automatic Fetish. The series is nearing completion with study of Part Six on Ground-Rent.\nRegistration is now closed\, but please email info@marxedproject.org if you are interested in further Capital studies. \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Since 2015 Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research and reported from Latin America for several socialist publications.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-volume-iii/
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Financialization,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 25
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T094341
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally
DESCRIPTION:A video of this November 29\, 2025\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA book talk by David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally injects new life into Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor\, presenting a new\, systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial travel literature\, planter records and diaries\, and slave narratives—to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \n“David McNally’s deft application of Marx’s theory and method not only unearths the hidden dynamics of slavery’s political economy but radically broadens our understanding of modern capitalism and its class struggles. The result: a new history of slavery that centers the enslaved—the chattel proletariat—not as ‘constant capital’ or fungible cogs in the machine but as its gravediggers.”—Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class \nDavid McNally is the author of many works of Marxist analysis and history\, including Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance and Empire; Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance; and Monsters of the Market: Zombies\, Vampires and Global Capitalism. David is Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. Earlier he taught political economy at York University Toronto for over thirty years. David is the editor-in-chief of Spectre\, a biannual and online journal of Marxist theory\, strategy\, and analysis. \nJoin our five-week reading group on Slavery and Capitalism starting December 1.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mcnally-slavery-capitalism/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital vs. Labor,Caribbean Studies,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 25,featured,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Slavery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T094341
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Volume I - A Short Course on Capitalist Production
DESCRIPTION:A 12-session study group\, September 20 through December 13 \n\nHave you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital\, Vol 1\, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-session study group covering key sections of the book. \nExperienced Capital study leader Lisa Maya Knauer will facilitate as we explore the relevance of Marx’s analysis to our current context. While we will go over the assigned material each week\, participants will read the material on their own in advance. This reading group is open to both Capital newbies and those who have read it previously but want a refresher. \n\nLisa Maya Knauer\, our facilitator\, 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. \nEnrollment in this series is now closed – please watch for future sessions on Marx’s Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-short-course/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Fall 25,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260119T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T094341
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SUMMARY:Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally’s recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally’s book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history\, political economy\, and radical abolitionism\, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class and highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom. He reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction\, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy. Over the past decade\, Fred has led numerous MEP study groups on political economy\, ecosocialism\, science and technology\, and Latin American politics. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \nEnrollment for this study group is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/slavery-and-capitalism-a-reading-group/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Du Bois,Emancipation,Fall 25,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Slavery,Social Reproduction,US History
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SUMMARY:Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory
DESCRIPTION:A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner\, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: “in contradistinction to materialism\, the active side [the subjective side of human behavior] was developed abstractly by idealism – which\, of course\, does not know real\, sensuous activity as such.” Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity\, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon. \nBridging political economy and psychology\, we will review Marx’s writings on the structure of social systems that encompass cultural emergents such as religion. As emphasized by Wendy Brown in her Foreword to the Reitter-North translation of Capital\, “Marx developed an understanding of political economy as the distinctive mode through which we build entire worlds through our singular cooperative powers—transforming nature\, elaborating divisions of labor and organizations of ownership\, producing wealth\, creating ways of life\, institutions\, social forms\, subjects\, and subjectivities… Capital brings into being not only particular kinds of markets\, technologies\, and industries\, but classes\, families\, and political structures; race and gender orders; relations with ‘nature’; new formations of space and time; and legal codes and conflicts.” \nTurning to the field of cultural psychology\, we will explore how cultural forms stimulate and organize human psychology. Here we will focus on the work of the Russian psychologist\, Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)\, who formulated a “cultural-historical psychological theory.” Vygotsky was a dedicated Marxist who was active in efforts during the revolutionary period to develop socialist cultural institutions and social sciences. Vygotsky said\, “We must learn from Marx’s whole method how to build a science\, how to approach the investigation of the mind.” Read more… \nCarl Ratner went through college and graduate school in the 1960s. He was a professor of social psychology in the California State University system for 31 years. He adopted Vygotsky’s work when it was first translated in the 1980s\, writing extensively on Vygotsky and authoring the Preface to vol. 5 of his Collected Works. Ratner was one of the few followers of Vygotsky who emphasized his Marxist orientation and developed it. Ratner is the author of Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind (Oxford\, 2012); his most recent book is Cultural Psychology\, Racism\, and Social Justice (Springer\, 2022). Carl has been active in the cooperative movement and served on the board of directors of California’s largest food coop in the 1970s and 80s. He lived in China from 1981-1983 and taught the first course on social psychology in Peking University since it had been banned after the Revolution. \nRegistration for this series is now closed.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marxist-psychology-ratner/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Critical Theory,featured,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Psychology,Reading Group,Science and Method,Winter 2026
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SUMMARY:Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer
DESCRIPTION:This six-week reading group\, facilitated by Lisa Maya Knauer\, will focus on one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work\, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory. Marx argued that capital accumulation depends not only upon the production of goods and the extraction of surplus value\, but also on the reproduction of capitalist social relations and above all of the class of people who have nothing to sell but their labor power. Social reproduction theory analyzes the processes whereby working classes and their conditions of life are sustained over time. Marx only sketched the concept in very broad terms\, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. Vogel and others argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. We will supplement Vogel’s classic work with some early writings by the Wages for Housework campaign and more recent scholarship\, including a newly published collection of Lise Vogel’s essays\, The Contested Domain. Some familiarity with Marxist and/or feminist theory is helpful but not essential. \nLisa Maya Knauer stumbled across the writings of the Wages for Housework campaign in the mid-1970s when she was a college student. A few years later\, she started reading Marx’s Capital at the MEP’s predecessor\, the School for Marxist Education. She is a co-founder of the MEP and has led our Capital Volume I reading groups for the past few years. In her day job\, she is a tenured radical at a public university. \nRegistration for this group is now closed. Contact info@marxedproject.org for more information.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/social-reproduction-theory-with-lisa-maya-knauer/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class and Gender,featured,Gender,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Social Reproduction,Winter 2026,Women
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SUMMARY:Marx's Capital\, Vol. II - On the Circulation of Capital
DESCRIPTION:In Volume I of Capital\, Marx analyzes the processes of capitalist production and accumulation and identifies the real sources of wealth: nature and the labor performed by working people. In Volume II\, The Process of Circulation of Capital\, he addresses the next big question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place\, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met\, in the necessary proportions\, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? In this study group\, we will discover some answers\, but we will also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society. Marx ‘s analysis in Volume II lays the groundwork for his system-wide summation in Volume III\, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. \nWe welcome all who have a basic knowledge of Volume I of Capital to this study group. Participants read selections on their own each week and meet for clarifying discussions\, guided by experienced students of Marx from the MEP. For certain key and/or difficult sections\, we do line-by-line readings in class. \nFred Murphy facilitates this group. Fred has led several Capital study groups and numerous others on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/capital-vol2-shortcourse/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,historical materialism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Spring 2026
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T110000
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SUMMARY:Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’ Book 2
DESCRIPTION:Join Russell Dale to read and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. At present the group is reading Book 2 of Smith’s The Wealth of Nations\, which takes up the nature and functioning of capital. Smith’s notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx’s understanding of capital\, and Marx frequently quoted from Book 2 in his discussions in “Capital” and other writings.\n \nWe will read the Oxford University Press edition of the work; the full title is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1976; General editors: R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner; textual editor: W. B. Todd). The book has been republished by The Liberty Fund and made widely available in a two-volume photographic reproduction edition. \nRussell Dale taught philosophy at Lehman College\, CUNY\, for many years but is now retired. He has been a collaborator of the Marxist Education Project since its inception. He is on the Editorial Board of the Marxist journal Science & Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/adam-smith/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marxist Method,Money,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Political Economy,Reading Group,Science and Method,Spring 2026,Winter 2026
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