Modernity
Events
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Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I
Online Event - Zoom MeetingClose reading and discussion of Marx's magnum opus with Lisa Maya Knauer and other facilitators from the MEP's Capital Studies Group.
Free – $90 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA continuation of the Fall 2022 series in which we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time.
Free – $90 -
The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II, Surveys From Exile
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. The primary text is the anthology 'Karl Marx: The Political Writings,' recently published by Verso. In this part 2, we will be reading the "Surveys From Exile" section, which begins with "The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850" and takes us through Marx's articles on the Civil War in the United States.
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I
Online Event - Zoom MeetingClose reading and discussion of Marx's magnum opus with Lisa Maya Knauer and other facilitators from the MEP's Capital Studies Group.
Free – $90 -
Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA 10-week series of readings to commemorate, celebrate, and learn from the ecological/Marxist works of Mike Davis (1946-2022).
Free – $90.00 -
Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition
Recording available on YouTubeEditors David Margolies and Qing Cao examine the contradictions inherent in China's attempt to achieve "socialism with Chinese characteristics" by promoting home-grown capitalism. Their book attempts to deconstruct the realities of this system in practice, focusing on the internal tensions between traditional Chinese values, neoliberal capitalism, and the CCP's vision of a transition to socialism in the 21st century.
Video available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/IMWTb07tBukFree – $12 -
Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA continuation of the Fall 2022 series in which we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time.
Free – $90 -
The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II, Surveys From Exile
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. The primary text is the anthology 'Karl Marx: The Political Writings,' recently published by Verso. In this part 2, we will be reading the "Surveys From Exile" section, which begins with "The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850" and takes us through Marx's articles on the Civil War in the United States.
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I
Online Event - Zoom MeetingClose reading and discussion of Marx's magnum opus with Lisa Maya Knauer and other facilitators from the MEP's Capital Studies Group.
Free – $90 -
Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran.
Free – $90 -
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Hegel for Radicals: Part III – Phenomenology of Spirit
Online Event - Zoom MeetingA continuation of the Fall 2022 series in which we introduced Hegel’s mysterious book, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will make the Phenomenology less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in the thought of Hegel and explain their significance for our time.
Free – $90 -
The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II, Surveys From Exile
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThis group is reading and discussing original texts by Marx and Engels about their theory of class struggles as the motive force of human social evolution and the modern working class as the political antagonist of the capitalist system. The primary text is the anthology 'Karl Marx: The Political Writings,' recently published by Verso. In this part 2, we will be reading the "Surveys From Exile" section, which begins with "The Class Struggles in France 1848-1850" and takes us through Marx's articles on the Civil War in the United States.
Free – $90.00 -
Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume I
Online Event - Zoom MeetingClose reading and discussion of Marx's magnum opus with Lisa Maya Knauer and other facilitators from the MEP's Capital Studies Group.
Free – $90 -
Iran Awakening II: More Novels by Iranian Women
Online Event - Zoom MeetingThe spring 2023 series of the MEP Literature Group continues to focus on Iranian women writing since the 1978-79 Revolution whose stories are set inside Iran.
Free – $90