Political Economy
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Adam Smith and ‘The Wealth of Nations’
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupRead and discuss the works of Adam Smith in this ongoing study group. The group is currently reading Book 4 of Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations'. Smith's notion of capital was important to Marx in the development of Marx's understanding of capital, and Marx frequently quoted from Smith in his discussions in Capital and other writings.
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Planetary Crises: ‘Anthropocene Communism’
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupThe MEP's Ecosocialist Study Group meets monthly to discuss important new works on the science and politics of the climate emergency, the nature of economic and ecological crises, and related topics.
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Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventReading GroupHave 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.
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Refusal of Work: The Writings of Harry Cleaver
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventJoin editors Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter for a discussion of Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, a definitive collection of Harry Cleaver’s best unpublished, translated, or lesser known writings – both historical and current – on the refusal of work, class composition and “inversion of the class perspective,” the crisis of capitalism, and the ongoing necessity of re-reading Marxist theory.
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Capitalism: The Insatiable Machine with Trevor Jackson
FeaturedOnline Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventJoin us for a conversation with Trevor Jackson on his book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World.' Full of memorable characters and lively vignettes as well as sweeping quantitative analysis and historical synthesis, The Insatiable Machine makes clear that capitalism is neither a natural, permanent, nor inevitable feature of human life but rather an economic system that has a history. And just as it was made by people, it can also be unmade by them.
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Highlights of Capital Volume III: The Automatic Fetish
Online Event - Zoom MeetingReading GroupA weekly study group on Marx's Capital, Volume III, based on Beverley Best's 'The Automatic Fetish.' Marx's work integrates and completes his analysis of capital, 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.
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‘Beneath the Wage’ with Annie McClanahan
Online Event - Zoom MeetingVirtual EventA conversation with author Annie McClanahan on 'Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.' Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?
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