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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/2023-03-01/
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: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/2023-03-05/
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/2023-03-05/
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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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/2023-03-07/
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:20230308T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230308T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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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/2023-03-08/
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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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230312T130000
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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/2023-03-12/
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:20230312T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230312T153000
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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/2023-03-12/
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:20230314T183000
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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/2023-03-14/
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:20230315T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230315T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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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/2023-03-15/
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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END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230319T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230319T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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/2023-03-19/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230319T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230319T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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/2023-03-19/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230321T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230321T200000
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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/2023-03-21/
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:20230322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230322T183000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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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/2023-03-22/
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:20230322T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230322T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
CREATED:20220506T153122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T183316Z
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SUMMARY:Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition
DESCRIPTION:A video of this March 22\, 2023\, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.\nThe success of China’s industrial/technical revolution since the 1980s has been international market-driven and led by private capital. But this capitalist “utopia” sits uneasily with both traditional Chinese values and the socialism that has been the foundation of the People’s Republic since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949. Utopia and Modernity in China\, edited by David Margolies and Qing Cao\, examines the contradictions inherent in China’s attempt to achieve “socialism with Chinese characteristics” by promoting home-grown capitalism. The 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. It offers an unusual insight into the complex cultural forces that are rapidly reshaping both China and world capitalism.\nBook available from the publisher\, Pluto Press. \nDavid Margolies is Emeritus Professor of English at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Irrational Endings: The Problem Plays\, and edited Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell. \nQing Cao is Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham. He is the author of China under Western Gaze\, and co-editor of Discourse\, Politics and Media in Contemporary China and Brand China in the Media. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/china-utopia-modernity/
LOCATION:Recording available on YouTube
CATEGORIES:China,Chinese Revolution,Classes/Events,History,Literature,Modernity,Political Economy,Revolutions,Seminars and Talks,Socialism,State Formation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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/2023-03-26/
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:20230326T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230326T153000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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/2023-03-26/
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:20230328T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20230328T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
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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/2023-03-28/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230329T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T162353
CREATED:20230307T154017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T154318Z
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SUMMARY:Animals at Work Under Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:A discussion and reading group\, moderated by Terike Haapoja\, on the central role of human and nonhuman animal labor in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. The class is a sequel to the MEP’s 2022 “Animals and Capitalism” sessions\, this time with a specific focus on labor. What are the anthropocentric premises underlying mainstream understandings of labor in Marxist theory? How might we expand our thinking to include the multiple forms of nonhuman labor necessary for capitalism? What kinds of labor do nonhuman animals provide in production\, and on what cultural\, ideological and economic bases is work divided among people\, nonhuman animals and machines? What new forms of animal labor are emerging (emotional\, reproductive\, entertainment…)? How do nonhuman animals rebel against their exploitation\, and how might a revolutionary multispecies labor movement take shape? \nThe class will discuss readings on the work of nonhuman animals in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and theories of labor\, and related topics. We will explore how exploitation of animal bodies of all species is bound up in the overall development of capitalism. (Participation in the 2022 class is not required.) \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-work-capitalism/2023-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Animals and Capital,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Food and politics,historical materialism,Labor Process,Marx,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Socialism
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