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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-02-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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SUMMARY:Mutant Ecologies in the Age of Genomic Capital
DESCRIPTION:The interconnected fields of genomic science\, genome editing\, and biotechnology have emerged over the past half-century as a revolution in the production of new life forms that have been eagerly adopted by agriculture\, pharmaceuticals\, textiles\, and other business sectors. While many – including the Nobel Committee – have heralded this as a “new epoch” of limitless possibilities for positive transformation\, In Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of Genomic Capital\, Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante show how genetic science has been deeply intertwined from its beginning with the raw imperatives of capital accumulation. “Genomic capital\,” the authors’ term for the use of genetic materials in industrial production\, has literally altered many of life’s metabolic processes in service to capital’s demands. Within a socio-historical context defined by the iron rules of competition and exploitation\, capital no longer contents itself with simply appropriating the living bodies of plants and animals but purposefully designs their internal metabolism\, and in that way it redesigns the countless living vectors that constitute the global biosphere. This biological revolution will ripple through the everyday lives of people everywhere. Erica and Amedeo will present Mutant Ecologies and Ariel Salleh and  Stuart Newman will discuss the book and initiate the conversation. \nBook available from the publisher\, Pluto Press. \nErica Borg is a geographer and political ecologist based at King’s College\, London. Their research focuses on the relations between capitalism\, colonialism\, patriarchy and ecological crisis. \nAmedeo Policante is a Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. His writings interrogate the nexus of extraction\, exploitation and expropriation that fuels the contemporary world market. He is the author of two books: The Pirate Myth and The New Mercenaries. \nAriel Salleh (discussant) is the author of Ecofeminism as Politics and numerous other books and essays on political ecology as an emerging study of humanity-nature relations. Her “embodied materialist” approach emphasizes the centrality of reproductive or regenerative labour in the world system. At present she is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities\, Nelson Mandela University\, South Africa. \nStuart Newman (discussant) is professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College and a leading scientific critic of the use of developmental biology to modify human species identity\, including cloning and germline genetic manipulation. Among his numerous books and publications\, Stuart is the co-author with Tina Stevens of Biotech Juggernaut: Hope\, Hype\, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/mutant-ecologies-in-the-age-of-genomic-capital/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Covid and Capital,Evolutionary biology,Healthcare,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This 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. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. 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. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-02-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-05/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230207T200000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-07/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230208T183000
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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-02-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230212T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230212T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214545
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This 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. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. 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. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-02-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230212T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230212T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214545
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-12/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230214T183000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-14/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Norfolk-Shipyard.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230215T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214545
CREATED:20221211T182130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T023245Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-02-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230219T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230219T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214545
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
UID:10007269-1676804400-1676811600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This 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. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. 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. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-02-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230219T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230219T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214546
CREATED:20221209T231124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T182706Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-19/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230221T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230221T200000
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-21/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214546
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SUMMARY:Reading Mike Davis: Between Catastrophe and Revolution
DESCRIPTION:A series of readings to commemorate\, celebrate\, and learn from the ecological/Marxist writings of Mike Davis (1946-2022). Davis’s works spanned urban studies to history\, geography to political science\, and more. They have become crucial reference points for the production of new knowledge by generations of scholars\, artists\, and activists. During 10 weekly sessions we will read and discuss key chapters from five of Mike Davis’s books: Planet of Slums\, Dead Cities\, Ecology of Fear\, Late Victorian Holocausts\, and Old Gods\, New Enigmas. \nConvened by Fred Murphy and Steve Knight\, who have co-led the MEP’s Ecosocialist Study Group since 2016.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-mike-davis/2023-02-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Agribusiness,American Imperialism,Asia,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Crisis,Ecosocialism,Enclosures,Globalization,Marx,Marxisms,Migration,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Pandemics and Capital,Political Economy,Precarity,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214546
CREATED:20230206T190314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230302T163525Z
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SUMMARY:Peru: Crisis and Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Banners read\, “They all must go! Jail the murderers! Elections now! Not one more death! Out with Dina Boluarte! Down with the racist civil-military dictatorship! Shut down Congress! For a people’s constituent assembly!”\nA video of this February 22\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. \nA deepgoing political crisis is shaking Peru\, with massive protests by working people in the countryside and cities\, murderous repression by the armed forces and police\, and desperate efforts to restore order by a widely hated right-wing Congress and an unelected president\, Dina Boluarte. Women and Quechua and Aymara people from the Andean countryside and interior cities are taking a leading role in demanding that Boluarte and the Congress resign and that a democratic constituent assembly be convened to enable a government that represents Peru’s diversity rather than the exploitative\, racist elites of Lima. Join us as Peruvian left activist and sociologist Nicolás Lynch reports on and analyzes these dramatic events direct from Lima. Historian Gerardo Rénique moderates and joins the conversation. \nNicolás Lynch has published many books and essays on Peruvian politics and history. He has taught at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and has served as Peru’s Minister of Education and as Ambassador to Argentina. Lynch holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research. \nGerardo Rénique taught Latin American history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/peru-crisis-and-uprising/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Crisis,Cultural Resistance,Extractivism,Gender,Indigenous Peoples,Insurgency,Latin America,Left Populism,Neo-fascism,Political Economy,Race and Class,Repression,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230226T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230226T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214546
CREATED:20221220T194754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T234954Z
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SUMMARY:The Political Writings of Marx and Engels: Part II\, Surveys From Exile
DESCRIPTION:At Karl Marx’s burial\, his lifelong friend Frederick Engels said that he was “above all\, a revolutionist.” Yet\, after 150 years\, his critique of political economy is arguably better understood and respected than his political theory of working-class revolution. This is ironic since Marx intended his critique of capitalist economies to be the intellectual buttress for his theory of revolution. Marx never wrote a work on political theory comparable to Capital. Perhaps because of this\, his ideas about the state\, governments\, political struggles\, and social revolutions have been propounded and interpreted in many ways by many different parties. This 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. That class has the power\, by abolishing itself\, to usher in a society beyond class exploitation. The primary text is the anthology Karl Marx: The Political Writings\, three volumes in one\, recently published by Verso. \nThis group began in fall 2022 and completed part 1 of the text\, covering the Communist Manifesto and Marx’s commentary on the 1848 revolutions in Europe as they unfolded. 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. \nModerated by David Worley\, a member of the executive committee of the Marxist Education Project and a longtime associate of The Brecht Forum\, where he served a term as co-chair of the Board of Directors. David is a nonsectarian socialist\, active since the 1960s in support of a wide range of peace and social justice causes.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-political-writings-of-marx-and-engels-part-ii-surveys-from-exile/2023-02-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital vs. Labor,Civil War,Class,Classes/Events,communism,Crisis,Emancipation,Engels,England,France,historical materialism,History,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marx,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy of History,Political Economy,Revolutions,Revolutions Study Group,Socialism,State Formation,US History,Working Class History
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230226T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230226T153000
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CREATED:20221209T231124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T182706Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Marx's Capital\, Volume I
DESCRIPTION:“Scornful neglect and intemperate hostility\, haughty dismissal…\, selective co-optation and … bowdlerization”: this is how Marcello Musto\, author of The Marx Revival\, describes responses to the ideas of Karl Marx by respectable pundits over the past century. To truly appreciate Marx’s thinking\, there is no substitute for a close reading of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Marx’s sustained effort to describe and explain the origin and trajectory of modern society: of “capitalism\,” a system of production that now dominates the most remote corners of the globe. Marx was arguably the first writer on the subject to immerse himself not only in theories of political economy but in concrete economic and sociological data (such as it was at the time). The study of Capital is at the core of the Marxist Education Project. \nParticipants in this class will closely read and discuss Marx’s Capital\, volume 1\, guided by Lisa Maya Knauer and other experienced students of Marx from the MEP. We will use a hybrid approach to cover the entire book. For key chapters or sections\, we will do a line-by-line reading with commentary and occasional supplemental materials. Participants will read other sections on their own\, and we will summarize and discuss when we meet. The course is offered in 11-week segments\, recurring until we have read the entire book (however long that takes). \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. \n  \nReview the MEP’s Privacy Policy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-marxs-capital-volume-i/2023-02-26/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Crisis,Das Kapital,Enclosures,England,historical materialism,Intro to Marxism,Labor Process,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Money,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Transition from Capitalism
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ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230228T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230228T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T214546
CREATED:20220806T001301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230424T140629Z
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SUMMARY:Towards a Revolution in Labor History
DESCRIPTION:Norfolk\, Virginia shipyards\, built with chattel bond labor\nA reading of Theodore W. Allen’s unpublished manuscript\, “Towards a Revolution in Labor History\,” a text that challenges “the original sin of ‘white’ labor historiography\,” which according to Allen “lies in the misbegotten concept that excludes the Black bond-laborers from the ‘working class.’”\nIn this heretofore unpublished manuscript\, Theodore W. Allen\, author of the acclaimed The Invention of the White Race\, challenges a new generation of labor historians and activists to break from what he described as “The Great White Assumption … the acceptance of the ‘white’ identity of European Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct.” Allen maintains that this “assumption” has shaped the field of US labor history since the 19th century and “lies at the root of harmful omissions and distortions of the historical record\, which need to be criticized and corrected if the study of labor history is to contribute to the development of class consciousness of the American working class and a viable alternative to the ruinous policies of the ruling class.” We will read Allen’s manuscript along with selections from other works by Allen and other labor historians. \nConvened with Sean Ahern. Sean was radicalized as an NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives on the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him\, and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” (1975)\, which served as a précis for The Invention of the White Race.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/towards-a-revolution-in-labor-history/2023-02-28/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Du Bois,Emancipation,historical materialism,History,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Populism,Race and Class,Solidarity,US History,Working Class History
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