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SUMMARY:David McNally: Marx and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:A recording of this May 18\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nWe marked the tenth anniversary of the Marxist Education Project with this keynote talk by David McNally on Marx and colonialism. The concluding chapter of Capital volume 1 tackles “the modern theory of colonization\,” yet Marx only half-delivers on the promise implied. Rather than present a full-fledged account of capitalist colonialism\, he pivots back to Europe and the processes of primitive accumulation. McNally fills in crucial gaps in Marx’s text\, suggesting directions in which he might have gone in analyzing colonial relations and the globalization of capitalism outside of Europe – centering bondage\, slavery\, colonialism\, and racism as foundational elements of global capitalism. \nDavid McNally is a good friend of the Marxist Education Project. Our most successful reading groups in the past 10 years featured his book Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance and Empire\, and we have also studied his Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. David is the 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.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mcnally-marx-and-colonialism/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Das Kapital,Enclosures,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Political Economy,Race and Class,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic II
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this winter with our reading of Part II of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Over 12 weeks we will cover Books 2 and 3\, Essence and the Concept. The first session on January 27 will be a review of Book I\, Being\, to help new students catch up. \nFamiliarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex 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. \nThese sessions bring out 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-for-radicals-the-science-of-logic-ii/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T200000
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 26\, 2024\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \n\n\nMichael Heinrich presents his biography-in-progress of Karl Marx\, which has already gained glowing reviews from Marxist scholars the world over. In the first volume published in English by Monthly Review Press\, Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society\, Heinrich deals extensively with Marx’s youth and his studies in Bonn and Berlin. It also examines the function of poetry in Marx’s intellectual development and his first encounter with Hegelian philosophy and the so-called “young Hegelians.” The volume begins a multidimensional look at Karl Marx and aims to include what most biographies have reduced to mere background: the contemporary conflicts\, struggles\, and disputes that engaged Marx at the time of his writings\, alongside his complex relationships with a varied assortment of friends and opponents. \n\n“A masterful work by one of the leading Marx scholars of his generation. Simply wonderful—analytical depth\, critical knowledge\, clarity of comprehension and presentation\, grasp of theoretical and historical contexts\, combine to create a most insightful Marx biography that will be an indispensable and lasting resource that scholars and researchers\, activists and critics alike\, should—and will—return to frequently.” —Werner Bonefeld\, University of York\, UK; author\, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy \nMarx has found his perfect biographer…. Heinrich’s attitude is the same as that of Marx: DOUBT EVERYTHING\, even Marx himself. Only through this critical perspective Marx’s ambiguities and contradictions can be revealed\, and his greatness and legacy be reclaimed. —Riccardo Bellofiore\, University of Bergamo\, Italy; author\, In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse \nMichael Heinrich teaches economics in Berlin and is managing editor of PROKLA: Journal for Critical Social Science. He is the author of The Science of Value: Marx’s Critique of Political Economy between Scientific Revolution and Classical Tradition\, and editor\, with Werner Bonefeld\, of Capital and Critique: After the “New Reading” of Marx.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/michael-heinrich/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,communism,featured,Hegelianism,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Modernity,Philosophy,Philosophy of History,Poetry,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Blood and Fire: The Violent Origins of Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Join the MEP’s Capital Study Group in a four-week study of the concluding section of volume I of Marx’s Capital\, which discloses the widespread violence and dispossession – in both Europe and colonized areas – that accompanied the emergence of capitalism. For Marx\, the history of this original expropriation or “primitive accumulation” was “written in letters of blood and fire.” In order for social relations to become structured around the production of commodities\, direct producers had to be violently separated from their means of subsistence\, and common resources had to be concentrated and privatized. \nThis series both concludes our year-long close reading of Capital\, Volume I\, and introduces the work for new readers who are welcome and encouraged to attend. It is also a good opportunity for those who had to drop out along the way to return to the study of Capital. 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. \nIllustration depicts the clearing (enclosure) of the Scottish Highlands\, which Marx details in chapter 27 of Capital.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-fire/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx's Capital,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,State Formation,War
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex 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/2023-12-16/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex 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/2023-12-09/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T170000
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SUMMARY:The Spectre Still Haunting: Introducing the Revolutionary Politics of Marx and Engels
DESCRIPTION:An introductory 10-week reading group for those just getting acquainted with Marxist ideas\, based on Marx and Engels’ elegant and rousing classic The Manifesto of the Communist Party and Frederick Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. We will be guided by China Miéville’s thoughtful\, provocative meditations on the Manifesto\, A Spectre Haunting. While Miéville is best known for his speculative fiction\, he is equally brilliant as a contemporary communist political commentator. \nA manifesto embraces contradiction. It is unafraid of paradox.\nIt provokes and insists and jokes and it’s quite serious. –China Miéville \nFacilitated by David Worley of the MEP’s Revolutions Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-spectre-still-haunting-introducing-the-revolutionary-politics-of-marx-and-engels/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist Literature,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Engels,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marxisms,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T130000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex 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/2023-12-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231125T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231125T130000
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex 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/2023-11-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231121T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this fall with a reading of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Familiarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex 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/2023-11-18/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T190000
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SUMMARY:Imperialism: The Long View and the Big Picture
DESCRIPTION:Video introduction\nImperialism is an economic and political system of war and conquest by great powers\, but it is also the lived experience of the conquered and subjugated. This almost always entails the murder\, rape\, theft\, enslavement\, and myriad humiliations of the dominated and colonized. Empires have committed genocide\, eliminating entire peoples\, and ethnocide\, erasing the nationality\, language\, and culture of the conquered. And the conquered have resisted\, risen up\, rebelled\, and often succeeded at least for a time in escaping the grip of empires. Even so\, new imperial or neocolonial systems often reimpose their domination in new ways\, leading to further resistance and rebellion. \nIn eight weekly sessions guided by Dan La Botz\, we will look at imperialism in the long view\, from the ancient world to today. We will examine the experience of imperialism and the theoretical justifications for it\, as well as anti-imperialist movements and their arguments. We will look at imperialism as economic phenomenon\, as political strategy\, as cultural experience\, and as psychological affect. We will discuss imperialism and gender and imperialism and the environment. \nSee the initial syllabus for further details. \nDan La Botz is a retired historian of the United States and Latin America and a longtime political activist on the left. He holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Cincinnati and has taught at several universities\, most recently in the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. He is the author of a dozen books and scores of journalistic and academic articles on labor movements\, social movements\, and politics in the United States\, Mexico\, Nicaragua\, and Indonesia. He is a co-editor of the journal New Politics.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/imperialism-long-view/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Africa,American Imperialism,Anti-colonialism,Anti-fascism,Antiquity,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,China,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,War
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T153000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series-2/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-11-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-11-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T153000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-11-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231031T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231029T153000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231024T143000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T153000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-17/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T153000
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-10/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T153000
DTSTAMP:20260616T020736
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T143000
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-10-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-10-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Commons\, Commoning\, Communism
DESCRIPTION:Various forms of commoning\, some traditional and some not\, provided the proletariat with means of survival in the struggle against capitalism. Commoning is a basis of proletarian class solidarity\, and we can find this before\, during\, and after both the semantic and the political birth of communism. –Peter Linebaugh\nBefore the advent of capitalism\, much of humanity produced their immediate livelihoods on lands and with tools to which they either had rights of use or held as individual property. All that came to a violent end with what Marx preferred to call the “original expropriation” (often misleadingly termed “primitive accumulation”) whereby the producers were deprived of access and the commons were enclosed. Peasants and artisans mounted strong resistance over centuries but in the end a propertyless proletariat emerged in countryside and city in England and other countries where capitalism triumphed. Such struggles continue down to the present\, however\, as working people continue to challenge new forms of expropriation such as intellectual-property laws\, private patents on seeds and other life forms\, displacement of urban communities\, extortion through petty fines and regressive taxation\, and seizures of land and water for mining and other profitable purposes. This reading group will explore the historical roots and persistence of such crimes and resistance by reading together The War Against the Commons\, by Ian Angus; Stop\, Thief! by Peter Linebaugh; and related texts. \nFacilitated by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight of the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/commons-commoning-communism/2023-09-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Climate Change,Das Kapital,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Extractivism,Food and politics,historical materialism,History,Indigenous Peoples,Labor History,Marx,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Precarity,Race and Class,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism,Working Class History
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UID:10007456-1695562200-1695569400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Reading Marx’s Capital\, Volume I (third series)
DESCRIPTION:Covering Parts V through VIII of Capital\, volume 1 \nJoin us as we continue the close reading of Volume 1 of Marx’s Capital begun earlier this year\, guided by an experienced team led by Lisa Maya Knauer. This fall we will be reading Parts V through VIII\, covering Wages\, the Accumulation of Capital\, and the so-called Primitive Accumulation. 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/reading-capital-3rd-series/2023-09-24/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Colonialism,communism,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,History,Marx,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Working Class History
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