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  • Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman

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    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this October 26, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Historian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx’s ideas have inspired ... Read more

  • Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni

    Recording available on YouTube

    Rescheduled to November 16 / In her new book 'Free Gifts,' Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to place value on nature. But the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. Recovering and reinterpreting classical economists' idea of "free gifts of nature," Battistoni builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking.

  • Reading Marx’s Capital, Volume III

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    A weekly study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume III, The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole. This work integrates and completes Marx's analysis, 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 of capitalism.

  • Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this November 29, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. A book talk by David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally injects new life into Karl Marx’s writings on enslavement and labor, presenting a new, systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery—using colonial ... Read more

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    Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Have 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.

  • Hegel and Marx

    Hegel, Marx, and Capital

    Recording available on YouTube

    Andy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx's use of Hegel's Logic in the writing of Capital.

  • Reading ‘Karl Marx in America’

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman's recently published Karl Marx in America.  To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential anti-Marxist nation, but Marx’s ideas have inspired a wide range of people to formulate a more precise sense of the stakes of ... Read more

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  • Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally's recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally's book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery to support the provocative claim that enslaved labor in the plantation system is a form of capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history, ... Read more

  • Firebombing of Venezuelan consulate, Lisbon

    Roundtable on Venezuela, Oil, and Global Politics

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this January 21, 2026, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. A conversation among leading left critics of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuelan sovereignty and its attempt to seize that nation's oil wealth. Matt Huber challenges interpretations of these events as simply another case of "blood for oil." Steve Maher ... Read more

  • Marxist Psychology: Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
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    A six-week workshop with Carl Ratner, in which we will seek to solve the riddle Marx posed in his first thesis on Feuerbach: "in contradistinction to materialism, the active side was developed abstractly by idealism – which, of course, does not know real, sensuous activity as such." Exploring a materialist theory of subjectivity which does know sensuous activity, we will see how historical materialism can be extended to reveal how it is compatible with psychology and how human psychology is itself a historical-materialist phenomenon.

  • Thea Riofrancos, 'Extractions'

    Extraction: A Book Talk with Author Thea Riofrancos

    Recording available on YouTube
    Virtual Event

    Thea Riofrancos, author of 'Extractions,' unpacks the challenges of "green capitalism" through the lens of lithium, a so-called "critical mineral" essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation.

  • Social Reproduction Theory with Lisa Maya Knauer.

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Karl Marx only sketched the concept of social reproduction in very broad terms, but it was taken up and expanded upon by Marxist and radical feminists, starting in the 1970s and 1980s. They argued that women’s oppression under capitalism is linked to their role in social (as well as biological) reproduction. This reading group will look at one of the germinal texts of social reproduction theory: Lise Vogel’s groundbreaking 1983 work, Marxism and the Oppression of Women.

  • Marx’s Capital, Vol. II – On the Circulation of Capital

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    Reading Group

    A ten-session study group covering Marx's Capital, Volume II, The Process of Circulation of Capital. Marx addresses the question: How can the reproduction of society as a whole take place, if there is no conscious social planning that ensures that all needs are met, in the necessary proportions, such that life can persist and the capitalist relations of production be sustained? We discover the answer, but we also learn of new contradictions and sources of crisis inherent to capitalist society.

  • Approaching the Limit: Panel 2, Extremities

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Special Event

    In two linked panels, the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture explores the limits and limitations of our world—sensory, spatial, temporal, social, cultural, political. I their geographical and methodological variety, our papers collectively map out the terrain of this keyword, and seek to determine the bounds, so to speak, of studying, theorizing and making culture at the limit. This second panel questions the socio-spatial manifestations of the limit and its political and property avatars: the border the boundary, and the zone.

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